The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines
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This little work contains the cream of the reports which during the last four years have been made in the journal of the American Medical Association by the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry of the Association. It should be in the hands of every one of our readers, for not only does it afford valuable information regarding the composition of many much vaunted proprietary medicines, thus supplementing the analyses made by Zernik and the British Medical Association's Chemist, but also gives amusing instances of the disingenuous ways of the pusher of nostrums.
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