Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Nostrums and Quackery.



Saturday, May 7, 2011 I wrote: Quackery.
Nostrums and quackery; articles on the nostrum evil and quackery ([1911]-36) @ http://archive.org/details/nostrumsquackery00amerrich has more neat stuff:
Reproduction of a typical "bust developer" advertisement of the
Aurum Company. The address 79 Deaborn Street was also that
of the defunct "Physician's Institute."
 


Nostrum: A medicine, esp. an ineffective one, prepared by an unqualified person.
NOSTRUMS AND QUACKERY
Articles on the Nostrum Evil and Quackery
Reprinted from The Journal of The American Medical Association
PART I: QUACKERY
ADVERTISING SPECIALISTS
CAXCER CURES
CONSUMPTION CURES
DRUG CURES
"FEMALE WEAKNESS" CURES
MAIL-ORDER MEDTCAL CONCERNS
MECHANICAL FAKES
MEDICAL INSTITUTES
PART II: NOSTRUMS
ASTHMA CURES
CURE-ALLS
COUGH MEDICINES
NOSTRUMS FOR DIABETES
HABIT-FORMING NOSTRUMS
HAIR DYES, ETC
HEADACHE CURES
KIDNEY PILLS AND SIMILAR NOSTRUMS
LAXATIVES
MISBRANDED DRUGS AND FOODS
MISCELLANEOUS NOSTRUMS
OBESITY CURES
PRESCRIPTION FAKES
RHEUMATISM CURES
PART III: MISCELLANEOUS
1.  The Confidence of Quacks
2.  The American College of Mechano-Therapy
3.  Molding Opinion on Food Preservatives BORAX IN FOOD?
4.  Patent Medicine Makers and the Press.
5.  Mrs. Price's Canning Compound
6.  Testimonials
7.  Press-Clippings and Nostrum Enterprise
Reproduction of a full-page advertisement from the Boston American, March 31, 1909.


KELLOGG'S SAFE FAT REDUCER by F. J. Kellogg, Battle Creek, Mich., the essential drug in this preparation is thyroid extract, and. it also contained poke root and toasted bread.

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