Elixirs, Balsams and Bilious Pills: Patent Medicines 1700-1907. David A. Norris.
by Norris, David A; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 11Health. Publisher: History Magazine, 2005ISSN: 1522-323X;.Subject(s): Advertising -- Medicine | Labels -- Law and legislation | Medicine -- Early works to 1800 | Opium | Patent medicines | Quacks and quackeryDDC classification: 050 Summary: "People who got sick during the 18th, and much of the 19th, centuries hated to call a doctor. Doctors were expensive, and were partial to prescribing harsh purgatives, or painful treatments such as bleeding. Thank goodness there was a cheaper, simpler alternative....And so it was that the patent medicine was a fixture of everyday life for over two centuries in England, the US and much of the rest of the world." (HISTORY MAGAZINE)TThis article describes the history of patent medicines.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Elixirs, Balsams and Bilious Pills: Patent Medicines 1700-1907, April/May 2005; pp. 31-36.
"People who got sick during the 18th, and much of the 19th, centuries hated to call a doctor. Doctors were expensive, and were partial to prescribing harsh purgatives, or painful treatments such as bleeding. Thank goodness there was a cheaper, simpler alternative....And so it was that the patent medicine was a fixture of everyday life for over two centuries in England, the US and much of the rest of the world." (HISTORY MAGAZINE)TThis article describes the history of patent medicines.
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