Nostrums and quackery : articles on the nostrum evil and quackery reprinted from the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Date:
[1911]
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Credit: Nostrums and quackery : articles on the nostrum evil and quackery reprinted from the Journal of the American Medical Association. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    May 4, 1911, an artic'le appeared stating that “Dr.” Orlando E. Miller had attempted to introduce his “consumption cure” in the Metropolitan Hospital, New York. Fortunately, mem- bers of the medical hoard of that hospital were familiar with Miller’s record and defeated this attempt to experiment on the city’s patients. From the ^Yorld'’s article, it appears that Miller is at present in London, England, operating a “sani- tarium.”] YONKERMAN’S “TUBERCULOZYNE” Time was when the United States was the dumping ground for the British quack and nostrum vender. The absence of • - . This valuable med* leal book tells in plain, simple Ian- guage how Con* sumption can be cured in your own home. If yoi!i know of any one suffering from Consumption, Catarrh, Bronchitis, Asthma or any throat or lung trouble, or are yourself afSIcted, this book will help you to a cure. Even If you a^e in the advanced stage of the disease and feel there is no hope, this book will show you how others have cured themselves after all remedies they had tried failed, and they be- lieved their case hopeless. Write at once to the Yonkerman Con>i sumption Remedy Co., 4195 Water Stfeet, Kalamazoo, Mich., and they will gladly send you the book by return mail free and also a generous supply of the New Treatment, absolutely free, for they want every suf- ferer to have this wonderful, remedy before It is too late. Don’t wait—write today. It may meani the saving of your life. IMiotographic reproduction of a Yonkerman advertisement typical of those appearing in the cheaper magazines and the less particular newspapers of this country. From Happy Hours. medical practice acts, or the inadequacy of such as existed, made many of the states a fertile field for the quack from across the water or for the discredited British physician. The lack of enforcement of such state food and drug law's as existed and the absence of any federal law on the subject