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Pure Food and Drugs


In 1903 Collier's Weekly launched a sensational campaign to expose the evils of patent medicines and to support federal food and drug legislation. The noted reporter and author Samuel Hopkins Adams wrote more than a dozen articles in his "Great American Fraud" series for that journal. Other famous "muckrakers" aroused public opinion with their articles, editorials, and cartoons in such national magazines as the Ladies Home Journal and Good Housekeeping.

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