Fraudulent Tuberculosis Cures
The "Pacific Medical Journal" says, editorially: "From actual records on file in the office of the National Association, it is estimated that the volume of business done annually by the various concerns who sell fake remedies for tuberculosis amounts to well over $15,000,000, and these fake cures number more than five hundred." Of one class of these cures the drugs can be bought for any sum, ranging from ten cents to five dollars, from a drug store. The second class of cures include the institutes, professors, or companies of doctors who guarantee to cure consumption by a secret method. There are nearly 150 of these institute frauds in the United States. And the third class are those who have home remedies, such as onions, and lemons, and rattlesnake poison, and coal dust, and lime dust, and pig's blood, and dog oil, and even alcohol. As the editorial states, the only real cure for tuberculosis is fresh air, good food, and rest, taken under competent advice.