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The Commercial Spirit--Commercialism in Medicine--Stock Company Medical Colleges--Graft in Medicines, Drugs and Nostrums--Encyclopedia Graft--"Get-Rich-Quick" Propositions--Paradoxes in Character of Shysters--Money Madness--Professional Failurephobia--The Fortunate Few and the Unfortunate Many--A Cause of Quackery--The Grafter's Herald--The World's Standard--Solitary Confinement--The Prisoner's Dream--Working up a Cough--Situation Appalling Among St. Louis Physicians--A Moral Pointed.