Hopkins, Samuel

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. 

Samuel Hopkins modifies the method for burning wood to make potash and is issued the first United States patent in 1790. 

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

These groups have been subjected to extensive analysis. See Martin Kaufman, Homeopathy in America The Rise and Fall of a Medical Heresy (Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press, 1971) John S. Haller Jr., Medical Protestants The Eclectics in America, 1825-1939 (Carbondale Southern Illinois University, 1994) Haller, Kindly Medicine Physio-Medicalism in America, 1836-1911 (Kent, OH Kent State University Press, 1997) Haller, The People s Doctors Samuel Thomson and the American Botanical Movement, 1790-1860 (Carbondale Southern Illinois University Press, 2000) and Alex Berman and Michael A. Flannery, America s Botanico-Medical Movements VoxPopuli (Binghamton, NY Pharmaceutical Products Press, 2001), pp. 17-31. 

Historically, chemical patents have always been important in the United States. As early as 1641, Massachusetts granted a patent, the first issued on this continent, to Samuel Winslow, for a 10-year term, on a method of making salt. The first United States patent law was the Act of April 10, 1790. The first patent under this law was granted July 31, 1790, to Samuel Hopkins of Vermont for a method of making pot and pearl ashes. ... 

Samuels Holmes and Horton (1968) have been unable to show regional distribution in dog brain. As far as I am aware this is the only species in which regional distribution has been studied. Kataoka et al. (1967) have shown in rats a certain localization in non-cholinergic nerve endings, but obviously this is not the only place where it is found (Hopkin et al. 1968.)... 

The first patent ever issued in the United States is awarded to Samuel Hopkins for a new and better way of making pearl ash. 

Thomas L eetka, Johns Hopkins University James Leighton, Columbia University Philip W. LeQuesne, Northeastern University Robert Levine, University of Pittsburgh Samuel G. 

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