Medical Messiahs: A Social History of Health Quackery in 20th Century America Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	Brane-Fude: The first court trial under the 1906 Pure Food and Drugs Act	3
2	The Lawless Centuries: History and stage-setting for health quackery in 20th-century America	13
3	A Decade of Enforcement: Valiant efforts, a Supreme Court defeat, and ambiguous help from Congress	41
4	Fraud in the Mails: Enforcement of postal fraud statutes from the late 19th century through the 1920's	66
5	B. & M.: A decade-long effort to prove fraud in court during the golden glow of prosperity	88
6	"Truth in Advertising": Cooperative efforts by the self-regulators and the Federal Trade Commission to restrict the most flagrant abuses of nostrum advertising	113
7	The New Muckrakers: The American Medical Association keeps muck-raking currents flowing until the next floodtide: the "guinea pig" school of critics	129
8	The New Deal and the New Laws: The hotly contested effort to make federal controls over self-medication drugs more nearly adequate to social need	158
9	In Pursuit of the Diminishing Promise: Food and Drug Administration use of the new law to drive false claims from labeling step by step through court interpretation	191
10	Two Gentlemen from Indiana: A diabetes clinic run by two physician-brothers named Kaadt	217
11	The Gadget Boom: Device quackery in America, highlighting Ruth B. Drown's Radio Therapeutic Instrument	239
12	The Chemotherapeutic Revolution: The way the "wonder drugs" era of prescription medication influenced patterns of self-medication	260
13	Mail-Order "Health": The Post Office Department's contest with medical fraud since the 1930s	282
14	Proprietary Advertising and the Wheeler-Lea Act: The triumphs and failures of the Federal Trade Commission in aiming its 1938 law against abuses in the advertising of self-medication wares	296
15	Medicine Show Impresario: A Louisiana state senator and his medicine show for Hadacol	316
16	"You Are What You Eat": Nutrition nonsense by spielers and door-to-door salesmen: Adolphus Hohensee the main exhibit	333
17	"The Most Heartless" : Cancer quackery, especially the protracted Harry Hoxsey case	360
18	Anti-Quackery, Inc.: A more cohesive effort to combat quackery, prompted by quackery's burgeoning	390
19	Turmoil on the Drug Scene: New frights, a new law, and new awareness of the need for better comprehension of the phenomenon of quackery	408
20	The Perennial Proneness: Reflections on the complex motivations that have made mankind so readily susceptible to the quack's appeal	423
	Afterword	435
	A Note on the Sources	472
	Index	481