Samuel Hopkins Adams Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.

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