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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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