Potions Or Poisons?

POTIONS OR POISONS tells how a reform movement led by Dr. Harvey Wiley of the Food and Drug Administration, and spurred on to action by journalist Samuel Hopkins Adams?who wrote a searing expose of the phony medicines in Colliers magazine?led to the end of the medicine shows. But it was not the end of the ?miracle tonics.? In fact, it was merely the beginning of a long dance with three partners?those who develop the supposed cures, a public eager to swallow their stories, and the government, which must continually scramble to keep up with the latest trends in alternative healing.