# Secret remedies

Author: British Medical Association

Genre: Category: Health & Medicine

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75168

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Secret+remedies+British+Medical+Association&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The analyses here given of some of the proprietary articles which the public are induced to buy for the cure of ordinary colds and catarrh furnish a good example of the absurdity of the barefaced pretensions in which nostrum mongers indulge, for minor ailments are by no means neglected by the makers of nostrums; if the price to be obtained is somewhat lower than in the case of more serious disorders the cost price can be reduced in an equal or greater proportion. Alarming accounts, too, of the evils to be expected if resort be not had to the advertised articles are not wanting. Thus, in the advertisement of one of the articles described below, it is stated that catarrh “invariably creates...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/secret-remedies-75168/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/secret-remedies-75168/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/secret-remedies-75168/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/secret-remedies-75168/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/secret-remedies-75168/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/secret-remedies-75168/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/secret-remedies-75168/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/secret-remedies-75168/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/secret-remedies-75168/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/secret-remedies-75168/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/secret-remedies-75168/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/secret-remedies-75168/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/secret-remedies-75168/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/secret-remedies-75168/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/secret-remedies-75168/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/secret-remedies-75168/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/secret-remedies-75168/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/secret-remedies-75168/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/secret-remedies-75168/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/secret-remedies-75168/chapters/11/index.md)