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

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.

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

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

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

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.