Mention has been made of a certain famous compound--which has been characterized by a well-known authority on drug addictions as "a dangerous drug used largely by drinkers." For 23 years after the death of the woman founder, ---- and ----, the owners of the concern, advertised, inviting women to "write to L. P. for advice in regard to their complaints, and being a woman"--though a dead one--"it was easy, for her ailing sisters to pour into her ears every detail of their suffering." The advertisement as generally printed runs: No physician in the world has had such a training, or has such an amount of information at hand to assist in the treatment of all kinds of female ills. This, therefore, is the reason why Mrs. L---- P----, in her laboratory at ----, Mass., is able to do more for the ailing women of America than the family physician. Any woman, therefore, is responsible for her own suffering who will not take the trouble to write to Mrs. P---- for advice. Does any woman need any further evidence of the fraudulent intent of such concerns? Keep in mind also that this particular remedy is exclusively recommended for "the diseases of women," and contains enough alcohol to render its users victims of the alcoholic habit. MEDICINE CONCERN RUN BY WOMEN Dr. D---- runs a mail order business in another town in Indiana. Her specialty is "diseases of women." The business is really owned by W. M. G----, a dealer in teas, coffees, etc. In the advertisements of the concern Dr. D---- emphasizes the fact that she is "a woman--a wife--a mother--a successful physician--a specialist on diseases of women." In many places in the literature of the company the "vast experience" of Dr. D---- is intentionally elaborated. "Her vast experience as a physician is only one of the qualifications she possesses...." "Her training and vast experience as a physician enables her to do more for suffering women than any woman can who is not a physician...." "During several years of active life as a general practitioner she acquired a vast amount of valuable experience that very few ever possess...." These three quotations emphatically assert that Dr. D. has had "vast" experience "as a general practitioner." Where did she get this experience as a general practitioner? Inasmuch as she graduated as a physician in 1907 and was licensed to practice in 1908, and as the "---- D---- Company" was chartered in 1908 and began active business then, we ask again, where did she get her "vast experience?" The following letter, sent by Dr. D---- to one of her prospective patients, gives a general idea of how the "game" is worked. These letters are "form" letters, printed by the thousand, though they are intended to convey the impression that they are personal--the patient's name being inserted. It will be observed that Dr. D---- has acquired the specious and oily art of the quack, and the seductive diction of those who live by their wits: