Adams, Samuel Hopkins

Adams, Samuel Hopkins. The Great American Fraud." Collier s October 7 and 28, November 18, and December 2,1905 January 13,1906. 

In response to these wild claims and harmful side effects, medical societies called for regulation of patent medicines. The dean of the Harvard Medical School, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., said in 1860 before the Massachusetts Medical Society that if all available drugs could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind, and all the worse for the fishes. 4 An expose of the patent drug industry called The Great American Fraud by Samuel Hopkins Adams appeared in Collier s Weekly in 1905. Hopkins accused the industry of relying on fake testimonials and fraud to poison the public. 

An expose of the patent drug industry called The Great American Fraud by Samuel Hopkins Adams appears in Collier s magazine. 

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