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heightliave a twenty per cent better chance of escaping tuberculosis 

 than thin people or people of normal weight. 



Make a collection of '"patent medicine" bottles. Send to the American 

 Medical Association, Chicago, 111., for books on Frauds, Nostrums and Quack- 



FIG. 159. This instrument consisted of a metallic cylinder filled with coke 

 dust or carbon black. From the device runs a silk cord on the end of which 

 is a band for attaching the cord to the wrist or ankle. The instrument 

 is to be placed in water and the cord attached to the patient during the 

 night. It was declared a fraud by the U. S. Government. 



sry, and also to the Department of Chemistry and to the Department of Agri- 

 culture, Washington, D. C for Analysis of Patent Medicines. 



FIG. 160. Such frauds as these have been sold by the manufacturer who 

 claims they will cure many ailments. The instrument in many cases was 

 made of a piece of brass pipe filled with worthless material. Oxpathor, 

 Oxydonor, and Oxygenator are frauds of this type. 



Deafness Cures. The market is flooded with all kinds of cures 

 for deafness. All " patent medicines " or patent devices for curing deaf- 

 ness may be considered fakes. Dr. Graham Bell, the inventor of the 

 telephone, endowed an institution for giving people who are losing 



