It was probable that in the so-called "cancer cures" there were the most damning exposures of the vilest and cruellest forms of quackery. "Cures for consumption" ran "cancer cures" close in doing infinite harm. It was a well-known fact that the less curable a disease the greater the number of reputed remedies. The "British Medical Journal" was one of the first to draw attention to the supreme folly of patent medicines. Cold cures" abound and they mostly profess to be certain cures. One of these was found to consist of water containing a pinch of salt and a trace of car-polic acid. Cost price 1/14 part of cent: sale price $1. Again, there were "one day" and "one night" "cold cures." The cost price of the "one day" cure was 1/54 of the sale price. He did not think he would be giving away any professional secret when he said that there was no cure for a "cold" and that "colds" took their natural course practically uninfluenced by drugs. There were, of course, no secrets in the medical profession or in science generally.
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