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Printer's ink, when it spells...

Printer's ink, when it spells out a doctor's promise to cure, is one of the subtlest and most dangerous of poisons.

Samuel Hopkins Adams 10 quotes

I'm a suicide. I walked right...

I'm a suicide. I walked right spang over the edge of life and disappeared. Splash! Bubble-bubble! There goes nothing.

Samuel Hopkins Adams 10 quotes

Average Jones had come by his...

Average Jones had come by his nickname inevitably. His parents had foredoomed him to it when they furnished him with the initials A. V. R. E. as preface to his birthright of J for Jones. His character apparently justified the chance concomitance. He was, so to speak, a composite photograph of any thousand well-conditioned, clean-living Americans between the ages of twenty-five and thirty.

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According to the estimate of ...

According to the estimate of a prominent advertising firm, above 90 per cent, of the earning capacity of the prominent nostrums is represented by their advertising. And all this advertising is based on the well-proven theory of the public's pitiable ignorance and gullibility in the vitally important matter of health.

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Ignorance and credulous hope ...

Ignorance and credulous hope make the market for most proprietary remedies.

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Work won't do me any good ......

Work won't do me any good ... I've tried it, and it bored me worse than the other thing.

Samuel Hopkins Adams 10 quotes

Anything is easy to the man w...

Anything is easy to the man who sees.... The open eye of the open mind--that has more to do with real detective work than all the deduction and induction and analysis ever devised.

Samuel Hopkins Adams 10 quotes

I'd sell my soul to the devil...

I'd sell my soul to the devil if he'd buy such a weakly, puny, piffling little soul, just really to live and be something besides a "thoroughly nice girl" for one short year.

Samuel Hopkins Adams 10 quotes

With a few honorable exceptio...

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.

Samuel Hopkins Adams 10 quotes

Shut your eyes to the medical...

Shut your eyes to the medical columns of the newspapers, and you will save yourself many forebodings and symptoms.

Samuel Hopkins Adams 10 quotes

Any physician who advertises ...

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.

Samuel Hopkins Adams 10 quotes

Success: a marvelous stimulan...

Success: a marvelous stimulant, bubbling with inspiration and incitement. But for all except the few who are strong and steadfast, there lurks beneath the effervescence a subtle poison.

Samuel Hopkins Adams 10 quotes

Medicine would be the ideal p...

Medicine would be the ideal profession if it did not involve giving pain.

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Shortest straw pulls the skun...

Shortest straw pulls the skunk's tail.

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With the exception of lawyers...

With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession.

Samuel Hopkins Adams 10 quotes

With the exception of lawyers,...

With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession.

Samuel Hopkins Adams 10 quotes

With a few honorable exception...

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.

Samuel Hopkins Adams 10 quotes

Printer's ink, when it spells ...

Printer's ink, when it spells out a doctor's promise to cure, is one of the subtlest and most dangerous of poisons.

Samuel Hopkins Adams 10 quotes

Medicine would be the ideal pr...

Medicine would be the ideal profession if it did not involve giving pain.

Samuel Hopkins Adams 10 quotes

Any physician who advertises a...

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.

Samuel Hopkins Adams 10 quotes

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