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 AdamsShut your eyes to the medical columns of the newspapers, and you will save yourself many forebodings and symptoms.
Samuel Hopkins AdamsAny 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