Nostrums and quackery: Articles on the nostrum evil and quackery reprinted from the Journal of the American Medical Association. 3 vols.

Cramp was director of the AMA's Propaganda for Reform Department.

"In 1911, Cramp published the first of three volumes called Nostrums and Quackery,^[3] which would become "a veritable encyclopedia on the nostrum evil and quackery."^[1] The first volume contained the educational materials, case histories, and testimonials his department had been collecting.^[5]

"Nostrums and Quackery, Volume II, published in 1921, was a collection of legal reports of case law involving nostrums and patent medicine reprinted from the Journal of the American Medical Association meant to educate the general public. As reviewer Joseph MacQueen stated, "The matter that appears has been prepared and written in no spirit of malice, and with no object except that of laying before the public certain facts, the knowledge of which is essential to a proper concept of community health."^[16]

"Cramp's Nostrums and Quackery and Pseudo-Medicine, Volume III, foreword by George H. Simmons, Editor Emeritus of the Journal of the American Medical Association,^[8] was published in 1936. As described in The Science News-Letter, the book contained "terse, simple and factual accounts of hundreds of nostrums and the ways of pseudo-medical practitioners."^[17] This volume, more condensed than the first two volumes, indexed 1,500 "remedies."^[8] W.A. Evans, in his review, wrote "When you have read this book you will consider credulity based on fiction rather drab."^[18(Wikipedia article on Arthur J. Cramp, accessed 4-2020)

Digital facsimile of the second edition of Vol. 1 (1912) from Google Books at this link, of Vol. 2 at this link.