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...single paragraph. Under the headline "BIRDS OF A FEATHER" it shouted out names: "No doubt Chicago merits this visitation as a return for its sins. In 1925, the Journal spoke briefly relative to the American Association for Medico-Physical Research, a society organized in 1911 by the outstanding quack of the century, Albert Abrams. The organization was an outgrowth of the American Association for Spondylo-therapy, the term 'spondylo' referring to the spine and not to the good old American word 'spondulix.' In this peculiar organization are assembled some of the conspicuous exploiters of borderline medicine...
...remove hair may cause cancer. The A. M. A. is seeking laws to "forbid the sale of certain dangerous poisons as ingredients of cosmetics and to compel all makers of cosmetics to make truthful representations of their products."?Arthur J. Cramp, sharp-tongued, ruthless quack-killer and nostrum-chaser for the A. M. A., compiler of the Association's reference book, Nostrums & Quackery...
...until after a long campaign against smut-writers and publishers that he turned his eye to the devilments of the quack doctors and abortionists. It was his practice to write under a false address, or disguised, to pay a visit to these evildoers. This led to mistakes but the method was not without value. It was Anthony Cornstock who decoyed the notorious Madame Restell to jail and then drove her to kill herself. When he heard of the latter event, the reformer said, "A bloody ending to a bloody life." While he was not alone in his campaigns, few associates...
...Author. Samuel Hopkins Adams is a successful hack writer who divides his time between advertising, muckraking and novels. He began as a reporter and feature writer on the New York Sun. A series of articles on quack medicines, which drove several manufacturers out of business, first brought him prominence in 1906. Later he conducted a column in the New York Tribune under the name of Ad-Visor, wherein he sought to expose dishonest advertising. Gimbel Brothers, potent Manhattan department store, brought suit against him when he attacked some of their advertisements. Gimbel Brothers won the suit. Mr. Adams...
...soon after, Quack Coffee set himself up at Davenport as an "eye, ear, nose and throat" specialist and began a new technique of gull-baiting. He bought full page space in newspapers and thereby gold-knuckled editorial prudence. He called himself a specialist and offered to treat "deafness, head noises from nasal catarrh," and only the American Medical Association objected. Such full page advertisements have become his chief means, with his "sucker list," of exploitation.* Quick flipping of newspaper files show that from January to April of this year he used full page spreads in at least the St. Louis...