This book offers an authoritative explanation of the many stupid or vicious practices of "the exploiters of human faith in curative remedies." Its flowing style and nontechnical descriptions make it an ideal book for the intelligent layman who may be overwhelmed by the misleading statements and half-truths present in advertisements, the popular press and the radio. It also supplies many needed facts and figures for the busy doctor who must confute exaggerated claims brought to him by his patients. There are chapters on the past, present and future status of medicine as well as on "tonics," vitamins, hormones, vasoconstrictors, local antiseptics, barbiturates, laxatives, thyroid, antiasthmatics, cosmetics, cancer cures and chemotherapy; the dangers of self diagnosis and treatment, the hazards of the common "medicine chest" with its poorly labeled bottles and old prescriptions, the fallacies in scare headlines and rumors of new discoveries and a glossary of the more common scientific