The Great American Fraud: Articles on the Nostrum Evil and Quackery

by Samuel Hopkins Adams

"Ignorance and credulous hope make the market for most proprietary remedies." -Samuel Hopkins Adams, The Great American Fraud (1912) The Great American Fraud (1912) by Samuel Hopkins Adams was originally published in Collier's magazine in 1905 as an eleven-part expos of patent medicines and the false claims advertisers made about their effectiveness. Medical quackery was at its height at the time, and consumers were buying remedies that were laden...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1646798856
• ISBN13: 9781646798858
• Release Date: March 1905
• Publisher: Cosimo Classics
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"