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.