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Valuable Post-Mortem...
...there between give-and-take living talk and the stale dead ashes of conversations raked over and microscopically dissected after many months! "The whole atmosphere and emphasis are changed. Transitions from one subject to another are blurred. Phrases taken from the context and subjected to a frigid post-mortem are hardly recognizable...
...however, remained on every package of tier famed Vegetable Compound, and clerks went on answering in her name 100,000 letters per year from women who thought the compound relieved their periodic ills. When the late Edward W. Bok started his crusade against patent medicines, he debunked the post-mortem Pinkham correspondence by publishing in his Ladies' Home Journal a picture of Mrs. Pinkham's tombstone. Pinkham sales soared. Despite other attacks and analyses showing that the only restorative ingredient in Mrs. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound was alcohol (19%, later reduced to 15%), by 1925 the business...
...slick-scalped man who wears gold-rimmed glasses and winged collars, caressed the skull of his deceased patient, placed a cigaret between its spring-hung jaws, clacked its bare hands upon the table. In final flourish the nine naprapaths signed a scroll listing themselves as members of a Post-Mortem Club and willing their bones thereto. A notary public authenticated the- document for what it was worth...
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