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6. How distinguish " specialist " humbugs from " scaven- 

 gers"? 



7. Name some " habit-forming " agents. Why is their in- 

 discriminate sale and use a menace to the public welfare ? 



8. Show how the following is true : " Most illness results 

 from carelessness, ignorance, or intemperance of some kind." 



Special Reports 



1. The great American fraud. 



2. The specialist humbugs. 



3. The scavengers. 



4. The "sure cure" school, 



5. Harmfulness of headache mixtures. 



6. Some "habit-forming" agents. 



References 



Hunter, Essentials of Biology. Chap. XXIV. 



Adams, The Great American Fraud. 



" A Grewsome Record of Convictions." Public Health Defense League, 

 New York, 1910. 



Willis, " What Whiskey Is." McClure's Magazine, April, 1910. 



Russell, Isaac, " The Danger in the Drug Store." Pearson's Maga- 

 zine, June, 1910. 



The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines. American 

 Medical Association, 103 Dearborn Avenue, Chicago. 



Kebler, L. F., " Habit-forming Agents. " Farmers' Bulletin No. 393, 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1910. 



Kebler, L. F., and others, "Harmfulness of Headache Mixtures." 

 Farmers' Bulletin No. 377, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1909. 



Forbes, E. A., "What not to do for a Headache." World's Work, 

 June, 1910. 



Johnson, E. B., "The Drug Clerk a Poor Doctor." World's Work, 

 July, 1910. 



SUMMARY II 



A summary of stimulants and narcotics, with some 

 reference to patent medicines. 



Note. None are necessary to enable one to make the great- 

 est success in life. 



