Chapter NINETEEN: The Lone Survivor

THE GREAT AMERICAN FRAUD By Samuel Hopkins Adams

A Series of Articles on the Patent Medicine Evil, Reprinted from Collier's Weekly

CONTENTS

I. THE GREAT AMERICAN FRAUD.

Drugs That Make Victims.

As to Testimonials.

The Magic "Red Clause."

Fake Testimonials.

The Doctors Are Investigating.

What One Druggist Is Doing.

A Post-Office Report.

Health Boards and Analyses.

II. PERUNA AND THE BRACERS.

What Peruna Is Made Of.

The Government Forbids the Sale of Peruna to Indians.

Two Testimonials.

Medicine or Liquor?

Some Alcohol Percentages.

What the Government Can Do.

III.—LIQUOZONE.

Liquozone "Cures" Thirty-seven Varieties.

The Men Who Back the Fake.

Faked and Garbled Indorsements.

Liquozone Kills a Great German Scientist.

All Ills Look Alike to Liquozone.

The Same Old Fake.

IV—THE SUBTLE POISONS.

Prescribing Without Authority.

An Acetanilid Death Record.

Drugs That Deprave.

On a cocain-laden medicine.

V.—PREYING ON THE INCURABLES.

Absolutely False Claims.

Health for Five Dollars.

Piso Grows Cautious.

VI—THE FUNDAMENTAL FAKES.

Newspaper Accomplices.

Quackery and Religion.

Safe Rewards.

The Immortal Mrs. Pinkham.

The Germicide Family.

Overworked Testimonials.

No Questions Desired.

Getting a Testimonial from a Physician.

Testimonials for a Magic Ring.

THE PATENT MEDICINE CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.

Silence is the Fixed Quantity.

All Muzzle-Clauses Alike.

Where the Money Goes.

Mr. Cheney's Plan.

Extract from a speech delivered before the Proprietary Association of

Valuable Newspaper Aid.

The Trust's Club for Legislators.

The Trust's Club for Newspapers.

An Appeal To The American Woman.

WANTED: A HUSBAND A Novel By Samuel Hopkins Adams

With Illustrations By Frederic Dorr Steele

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

CHAPTER XI

CHAPTER XII

CHAPTER XIII

CHAPTER XIV

CHAPTER XV

CHAPTER XVI

CHAPTER XVII

CHAPTER XVIII

CHAPTER XIX

CHAPTER XX

OUR SQUARE AND THE PEOPLE IN IT By Samuel Hopkins Adams

Illustrated by Scott Williams

CONTENTS

OUR SQUARE

I

II

III

IV

THE CHAIR THAT WHISPERED

MACLACHAN OF OUR SQUARE

THE GREAT 'PEACEMAKER

ORPHEUS

A TALE OF WHITE MAGIC IN OUR SQUARE

THE MEANEST MAN IN OUR SQUARE

PAULA OF THE HOUSETOP

THE LITTLE RED 'DOCTOR OF OUR SQUARE

List of Illustrations

Whirled Her out of a Pit Of Darkness

Read from Left to Right

Her Hands Slipped to his Shoulder

What Do I Owe Ye But a Curse

We Have Successfully Terminated the Negotiation

I Puh-hut It in My Huh-huh-hair

Jogging Appreciatively Along Behind Schutz's Mouse-hued Mare

COMMON CAUSE A Novel of the War in America By Samuel Hopkins Adams With Illustrations by Arthur William Brown

CONTENTS

COMMON CAUSE