Samuel Hopkins Adams 1871-1958
Ignorance and credulous hope make the market for most proprietary remedies.Collier’s Weekly 7 October (1905)
With a few honorable exceptions the press of the United States is at the beck and call of the patent medicines. Not only do the newspapers modify news possibly affecting these interests, but they sometimes become their agents.
Collier’s Weekly 7 October (1905)
With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession.
The Health Master Ch. 1
Medicine would be the ideal profession if it did not involve giving pain.
The Health Master Ch. 3
Any physician who advertises a positive cure for any disease, who issues nostrum testimonials, who sells his services to a secret remedy, or who diagnoses and treats by mail patients he has never seen, is a quack.
The Great American Fraud p. 39. Collier and Sons (1905)
Source: Oxford Dictionary of Medical Quotations by Peter McDonald
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