Dumesnil and his journal that came to the defense of the "patent medicine" interests wtien they were so hard hit by Mr. Adams's "Great American Fraud" series. In comment¬ ing on this phase of "patent medicine" activities, Collier's, in January, 1907, said : "Headache powders came in for a considerable share of attention in the patent medicine articles. There was much tatk of libels among the headache powder makers, but they decided upon the safer methods of hiring a meretricious medical publication, the St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal, to print an article in which the Collier's statements were branded as lies, and the Collier's editors and writers as liars and Hbelers. This article the Proprietary Association of America circulated in pamphlet form. The journal which printed it died a natural death a few weeks later. Its editor, one O. H. Ohmann-Dumesnil, has just appeared in the public prints in an unsavory connection with a corrupt lobbying project in St. Louis." Some of the nostrums that Ohmann-Dumesnil has recom¬ mended are : "Sanmetto," "Gonosan," "Cactina Pillets,"
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