The Health bulletin [serial] - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

THE HEALTH BULLETIN. 251that in Chicago the venereal quackeryemaciated fellow in the picture is aconsumptive in the last stages. Headmits having taken at least twentybottles of "Nature's Creation." However,he did not pay for the medicine,but received it in return for a testimonialhe wrote endorsing this nos-A consumptive in the last stages and his patentmedicine bottles (Nature's Creation) which helpedto put him there.trum.This young man is now in a sanatoriumfor the treatment of tuberculosis,and has little hope of recovery.After learning the real worthlessnessof this nostrum, he consented to bephotographed with a number of theempty bottles. He is indeed a woefulspectacle.Verily, a fool and his health aresoon parted, but who parts them? Toofrequently the advertisers of patentmedicines.Be sure tosee that the birth of anychild in whom you are interested isreported and recorded; it may meana great deal to that child in lateryears.GOOD HUNTINGHow the Light of Publicity KnocksOut Patent Medicine FraudsQuack doctors are the most vulnerableof big game. How astonishinglytender their commercial susceptibilitiesare has been shown by the ChicagoTribune. One week of exposurethrough the Tribune's columns practicallyruined every venereal diseasequack in the city. Some shut up shopand disappeared. Others sat idle inempty offices, forlorn spiders at thecenter of flyless webs. Never beforewas so powerful and profitable an industrybrought to such instant wreckage.What destroyed this pirate tradewas not alone the direct result of theexposures, definite and potent thoughthat was. The lethal blow was theeviction of all this class of advertisingfrom the daily press."Within fourdays of the Trihime's declaration ofwar every morning and afternoon paperin the city, whether printed inEnglish or in some other language(and there is a great number of Chicagonewspapers published in foreigntongues), which was carrying thisclass of copy had been shamed oralarmed into throwing it out. Theevening paper of William R. Hearst,who a year ago bragged mightily ofhaving foregone his alliance withquacks, was forced to exclude advertisingwhich represents in the neighborhoodof $70,000 a year blood money tothat apostle of journalistic purity.Finally, the militant Tribune gives noticeof its intention to stir up prosecutionsunder the law; or, if the presentlaw be inadequate, to agitate for theenactment of a stronger statute underwhich the malefactors may be broughtto book. In view of this newspaper'sestablished reputation for carrying outto the fullest conclusion whatever itundertakes, it is a fairly safe prophecy