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by many analyses that a large number of the so-called " malts/' 

 " malt extracts/' and " tonics/' including several of the best known 

 and most advertised on the market, are simply disguised beers 

 and, frequently, very poor beers at that. These drugs, in addition 

 to being harmful, affect the person using them in such a manner 

 that he soon feels the need for the drug. Thus the drug habit is 

 formed, - - a condition which has wrecked thousands of lives. A 

 number of articles on patent medicines recently appeared in a 

 leading magazine and have been collected and published under the 

 title of The Great American Fraud. In this booklet the author 

 points out a number of different kinds of " cures ' and patent 

 medicines. The most dangerous are those headache or neuralgia 

 cures containing acetanilid. This drug is a heart depresser and 

 should not be used without medical advice. Another drug which 

 is responsible for habit formation is cocaine. This is often found in 

 catarrh or other cures. Alcohol is the basis of all tonics or 

 " bracers." Every boy and girl should read this booklet so as to 

 be forearmed against evils of the sort just described. 



REFERENCE READING ON FOODS 



Hunter, Laboratory Problems in Civic Biology. American Book Company. 



Allen, Civics and Health. Ginn and Company. 



Bulletin 13, American School of Home Economics, Chicago. 



Cornell University Reading Course, Bills. 6 and 7, Human Nutrition. 



Davison, The Human Body and Health. American Book Company. 



Jordan, The Principles of Human Nutrition. The Macmillan Company. 



Kebler, L. F., Habit-forming Agents. Farmers' Bulletin 393, U.S. Dept. of Agri. 



Lusk, Science and Nutrition. W. B. Saunders Company. 



Norton, Foods and Dietetics. American School of Home Economics. 



Olsen, Pure Foods. Ginn and Company. 



Sharpe, A Laboratory Manual for the Solution of Problems in Biology, pp. 226-240. 



American Book Company. 



Stiles, Nutritional Physiology. W. B. Saunders Company. 

 The Great American Fraud. American Medical Association, Chicago. 

 The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines. Am. Medical Association. 

 Farmers' Bulletin: numbers 23, 34, 42, 85, 93, 121, 128, 132, 142, 182, 249, 295, 



298. 



Reprint from Yearbook, 1901, Atwater, Dietaries in Public Institutions. 

 Reprint from Yearbook, 1902, Milner, Cost of Food related to its Nutritive Value. 

 Experiment Station, Circular 46, Langworthy, Functions and Uses of Food. 



