| 单词 | patent medicine |
| 例句 | It was nothing a good physic or a patent medicine wouldn’t take care of. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z There Clarkson had to push his way through a crowd of vendors selling coffins and patent medicine cures. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z I says you always talking about how much you give up for us when you could buy ten new dresses a year on the money you spend for those dam patent medicines. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z A quack doctor pitched patent medicines from the back of a wagon: “A rare cordial to fortify the innards against infective parasites, unwholesome damps, and malignant effluvia!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Then the cheerfully amoral Randall brings his skills as a silver-tongued salesman and his sexual magnetism, first practised selling TV sets and hi-fi equipment, to bear on peddling patent medicines. Love & Other Drugs ? review 2011-01-02T00:03:03Z Meanwhile, he probes the disappearance of an itinerant patent medicine salesman and his daughter. Crime fiction: Seattle-area authors set their mysteries here, there and Cincinnati 2012-05-09T21:36:04Z As one may expect, sketchy patent medicines and doctor-prescribed Prohibition whiskey are also in the mix. Here’s to Your Health 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z Kola nuts circulated through Europe and the Americas but did not find a widespread audience until the 19th century, when the craze for patent medicines encouraged entrepreneurs to bottle vigor wherever it could be found. Pop quiz: What's in a Coca-Cola, if it's not 'coca' or the kola nut? 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z Popular since the 1840s, root beer, which, like so many of America’s sodas, straddled the line between patent medicine and soothing nonalcoholic libation, was enjoyed as a hot beverage or as a carbonated soda. What goes into Old West favorites sarsaparilla, sassafras and root beer 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z Decades ago, people could hawk dangerous patent medicines and promise benefits — even when their concoctions might have catastrophic consequences. New book recounts the FDA’s ‘unholy birth’ 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z Most of these nonalcoholic spirits are unsweetened or only very lightly sweetened, making them taste more like old-fashioned patent medicine than beverages. Nonalcoholic spirits can seem like a marketing scam, but they have a place 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z Patients are no longer offered patent medicines, routine bloodlettings or lobotomies. Why It’s So Hard to Cut Waste in Health Care 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z When more and more people began to learn of the alleviation of symptoms found in the application of snake oil-based patent medicines, tonics or lotions, it intensified a market for quick-relief products. Editorial Roundup: Recent editorials in Arkansas newspapers 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z Having succumbed to the lure of opiate-laced patent medicine, her stern father has become a shell of his former self. A gender-bending tale of the Old West, told in comfortable, burnished prose 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Newspapers filled up with ads for patent medicine remedies and stories of dubious homemade cures. Why the long face? Because in 1872, nearly every horse in Washington got very ill. 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z A bottle of patent medicine, still half-full of “extract of liverwort,” sold by Shakers in the early 19th century to support their fledgling religious community. The Smithsonian now has its first religion curator since the 1890s 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z He also concludes that addiction to ever-stronger doses of patent medicines clouded Hitler's judgement on strategic issues concerning Dunkirk and Crimea. History: Addiction and the Reich : Nature : Nature Research 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z Protectionism is a patent medicine, though Hillary Clinton is proposing a trade agenda little different from Mr. Trump’s. Trump and the Art of Growth 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z In 1906, the FDA outlawed the word “cure” to be used on the packaging of patent medicines - a game changer for the pharmaceutical industry. Iowa businessman collects old pharmaceutical bottles 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z It was an office and laboratory for his patent medicine firm, the South Bend Remedy Co. Indiana landmarks wants to sell building, renovate another 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z A lot of us bought the patent medicine Barack Obama was selling – now we're paying the real price for it. 'Cover Oregon' Cover-Up 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z There was a listing for AOI’s annual Washington’s Birthday celebration, along with ads for all manner of patent medicines: tonics and ointments to cure catarrh, consumption, bronchitis, vascular excrescences . On its birthday, this D.C. history group gave some big gifts. 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z A big part of the populist appeal lies in the patent medicines candidates are peddling. Welcome to the Age of Populism Peddlers 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z “Sometimes, the only active ingredient in some of these ‘patent medicine bottles’ was alcohol - 40 percent in some cases,” Hull said. Iowa businessman collects old pharmaceutical bottles 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z These ethically deplorable actions, however, are less a product of the Internet Age than a reconfiguring of practices initiated by the mail-order patent medicine industry in the late nineteenth century. The Historical Roots of Ashley Madison 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z There’s a shelf of 19th-century patent medicines and a 1950s television commercial proclaiming that “more doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette.” ‘American Enterprise’ Review: A Skewed History of American Business 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z In peddling patent medicine, Huckabee exploits the faith of his followers. Huckabee Infomercial for Dubious Diabetes Cure Should Leave Voters Wary 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Opiates were fairly common in patent medicines at the time. This weekend’s conference on D.C. history has a little bit of everything From the start, pharmacies were known for their soda fountains, but most offered few other sidelines, confining their stock to drugs, herbs and patent medicines, Williams wrote. Born in 1879, pharmacy keeps up with times 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z Letters sent to patent medicine firms did not typically remain there. The Historical Roots of Ashley Madison 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z When we publish a list of the patent medicines recommended, the world will know how many disinterested friends we have. A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z Ancient schools of medicine traced all diseases to the blood, and so drained off the fluid; and the patent medicines of to-day generally select some one organ as the source of all disease. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z Let the few remaining professional poets resolutely abstain from writing verse; let verse be made only by patent medicine manufacturers and grocers and Imagistes and, in general, people totally ignorant of poetry. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z We hear a great deal in these days about mind cures, and rest cures, and faith cures, and cures by hypnotism, and cures by patent medicines. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z These firms acquired and sold mailing lists as well as the letters sent by people to patent medicine houses. The Historical Roots of Ashley Madison 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z The present writer has had one example of how utterly disingenuous, though one feels much more like calling it rascally, the manufacturers of so-called patent medicines or proprietary remedies may be. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z But they should hear druggists arguing with people who hesitate about buying patent medicines because their physicians tell them they should seldom take medicine unless prescribed by a doctor. Quacks and Grafters 2012-02-23T03:00:40.650Z The root is said to enter largely into the composition of a patent medicine called "Skookum." The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z But he expected to recover soon; was he not taking his "patent medicine" regularly? Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z To think that any nostrum or patent medicine is a specific for all the diseases flesh is heir to. The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young 2012-02-03T03:00:20.453Z Do not forget to warn the people against patent medicines that contain alcohol. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z They would hear him say: “Your doctor gives you medicines that are put up in quantities for him just as these patent medicines are put up for us.” Quacks and Grafters 2012-02-23T03:00:40.650Z The oil is also used effectively in toothache, earache, etc., and enters into the composition of certain patent medicines. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z "Except when it's a case of selling patent medicines, I'm not a casuist." A Prairie Courtship 2012-02-01T03:00:12.830Z One cannot help thinking of the magniloquent terms in which he would have extolled his remedies, if the fates had led him to the concoction of patent medicines. Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight 2012-01-19T03:00:21.953Z They try all the physicians in turn, then the homoeopaths and osteopaths and similar quacks, and they add patent medicines prescribed by themselves. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z The intelligent portion of the laity is becoming alive to the patent medicine evil. Quacks and Grafters 2012-02-23T03:00:40.650Z Then everybody had gone back to his business, trusting that the people's supreme power, like some marvellous patent medicine, would automatically take care of all the necessary improvements. The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom 1795-1813 2012-01-19T03:00:20.007Z Your wildest flight was the driving about the prairie with a load of patent medicines, and now your imagination is bounded by a homestead and household comforts. A Prairie Courtship 2012-02-01T03:00:12.830Z The Chinese Materia Medica is especially abundant in patent medicines, the use and application of which, it must be allowed, is frequently of the most extraordinary nature. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-03T03:00:07.630Z When one gets something the matter with his eyes and resorts to the use of a patent medicine for its relief, he is in danger of losing valuable time. Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. 2011-12-26T03:00:15.410Z The anxious parent looked twice through the pages, finally finding the changeling, dwarfed and subdued, in a modest corner next the patent medicine "ads." The Lash 2011-12-20T03:00:32.457Z He first earned his living by engraving a large number of elegant and original designs on steel with a diamond point, for patent medicine labels. The Romance of Industry and Invention 2011-12-19T03:00:43.870Z At that moment I heartily wished that Hughes had been at Jericho before he induced me to dabble in his patent medicines. Amusement Only 2011-12-04T03:00:06.637Z Any one familiar with controversy knows that Christianity is advertised like a patent medicine which will cure all the maladies of mankind. English Secularism A Confession Of Belief 2011-11-24T03:00:50.030Z The mediocre sawbones can always take a shop, go to India, marry a sickly widow, or invent a patent medicine. Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire 2011-11-15T03:00:23.507Z The ribs of it streaky with the dint of patent medicines—— Mrs. Delane. Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-11-12T03:00:36.860Z The rest of the page usually contained very little of feminine interest, consisting mainly of sporting topics and lurid testimonials to so-and-so's patent medicines. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z Pybus told some pleasant and characteristic anecdotes about injurious effects of patent medicines. Amusement Only 2011-12-04T03:00:06.637Z Among other manufactures are canned goods, coal dealers’ supplies, and patent medicines. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" 2011-10-22T02:00:29.487Z She'd tried every kind of doctorin' and patent medicines on him and, in spite of it, the last specimen of "Swamp Bitters" or "Thistle Tea" finished him. The Postmaster 2011-09-21T02:00:28.863Z Many succumb to the lure of unlikely patent medicines. On View: ?Contagion? Misses Much of the Real Drama of Pandemics 2011-09-12T18:37:44Z If I ever set up business in Australia it would be in three "lines"—frying pans, false teeth, and patent medicines. The Awful Australian 2011-08-11T02:00:14.850Z "I need scarcely observe what fortunes have been made in patent medicines." Amusement Only 2011-12-04T03:00:06.637Z Among Freeport’s manufactures are foundry and machine shop products, carriages, hardware specialties, patent medicines, windmills, engines, incubators, organs, beer and shoes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" 2011-10-22T02:00:29.487Z There is no greater folly than the buying of patent medicines to cure fever and ague.. The Civil War and Malaria 2011-07-14T15:45:00.377Z We have been informed that the proper thing in these days, when writing a book, is to recommend 139 some condiment or patent medicine to the notice of the confiding public. Three in Norway by Two of Them 2011-07-10T02:00:15.900Z If she had been living to-day, I suppose she would have tried every patent medicine in the market. Pleasure & Profit in Bible Study 2011-07-09T02:00:14.273Z How the habit of taking patent medicines was worse than the habit of dram drinking, and the why, and the wherefore, and so on. Amusement Only 2011-12-04T03:00:06.637Z The familiar verbal effluvia of the patent medicine industry clutter some early posters. On View: Spoonfuls of Medicine, Marketed for Centuries 2011-06-20T20:47:24Z Other patent medicines, and, indeed, some of the proprietary preparations, commonly recommended as nutrients and the like, and supposed to be ethical, are found to owe whatever efficiency they have to their alcoholic content. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z The mail consisted of three letters—two of which were for Max—and a few circular advertisements from enterprising promoters of patent medicines. Between Sun and Sand A Tale of an African Desert 2011-06-15T02:00:16.390Z One patent medicine has made strenuous endeavours to foist itself upon him, with an obvious view to subsequent advertisement. The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography 2011-05-29T02:00:07.883Z "I wish we had a picture such as they give with patent medicines 'before' and 'after' taking," said Brenda. Brenda's Ward A Sequel to 'Amy in Acadia' 2011-05-20T02:00:37.457Z The habit is very frequently induced by patent medicines taken to cure catarrh by the neurasthenic, or to cure nervousness by hysterics as well. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z The patent medicine men of Rome in the early Christian eras made use of just the same methods that are employed to-day. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z The modern, patent medicine was as yet unknown, but something not unlike it had become popular among the patrons of the Lyons pharmacy. Makers of Modern Medicine 2011-03-05T03:00:29.580Z "Oh, she's the old person who made so much money out of a patent medicine." Miss Theodora A West End Story 2011-02-26T03:00:48.940Z As Sir Brook says, there is nothing like a patent medicine to make a man rich; and by good luck he is possessed of the materials for one. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. 2011-02-18T03:00:17.957Z A variety of items of scraps from the neighborhood, and advertisements, the longest of which relate to patent medicines of all sorts, fill up these two inner pages of the paper. Two Years in Oregon 2011-02-16T03:00:33.293Z What, then, would be the difficulties in passing a Federal bill to restrict the sale of patent medicines containing habit-forming drugs? Habits that Handicap The Menace of Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco, and the Remedy 2011-02-15T03:00:18.787Z Installment houses prey upon them, pawnbrokers suck their blood, and they are infinitely the victims of patent medicines. Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy 2011-01-06T03:00:45.737Z Lots of patent medicines, with which the enemy was about inundating the South American coast, for the benefit of the livers of their fellow-democrats, were consigned to the flames. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z The world tries his patent medicine, and is no better. The Ivory Gate, a new edition 2010-12-25T03:00:10.617Z In 1855, according to Mr. Henkin, 30 or 40 mailbags filled with nothing but printed “circulars” for lotteries and patent medicines arrived daily at some post offices. Digital Domain: The Birth of Cheap Communication (and Junk Mail) 2010-02-20T21:20:00Z On the other hand, the alkaloids of opium administered hypodermically or as ingredients in many patent medicines are thus convenient, and as a result this phase of the evil has reached overwhelming proportions. Habits that Handicap The Menace of Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco, and the Remedy 2011-02-15T03:00:18.787Z The amount yearly expended by Negroes for patent medicines, which are glaringly advertised in all Southern newspapers, must be enormous—millions of dollars. Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy 2011-01-06T03:00:45.737Z And now, as if to render what was already bad enough a great deal worse, she made use of a certain patent medicine, which had been greatly lauded in the public papers. Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician Then there's patent medicine and scene-painting,—any one can paint a scene, all done with a great brush—this fashion; and you get up to fifteen, ay, twenty pounds a week. Tony Butler She presented as true a picture of a person undergoing steady, unchangeable, chronic pain as a patent medicine firm could wish to discover for miraculous purposes. Last Words This would at once eliminate the gravest feature of the case, the indiscriminate sale of proprietary and patent medicines containing small quantities of opium. Habits that Handicap The Menace of Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco, and the Remedy 2011-02-15T03:00:18.787Z Lottie dreamily turned to the last page of London Opinion and vainly attempted to sound the middle of her back; she was clearly disturbed by the advertisement of a patent medicine. A Bed of Roses So we had cigars, a pound of chocolate creams, an oyster stew, and he bought a bottle of patent medicine for his liver. A Man in the Open We have, as it were, advertised the sea till it seems as innocuous as a patent medicine. The Book of This and That Yes, the old chap was a great believer in patent medicines. Thirty I’m in favor of rigging up some other patent medicine and going right ahead with the business. Young Wallingford Singular that when country people will buy nothing else, they will buy patent medicines. Anne America is the great field of operation for the patent medicine vender. The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. Give the names of some patent medicines you know. Keep-Well Stories for Little Folks In coming home, his satchel sometimes contained a few skeins of silk, some herb tea, leeches in a phial, patent medicine, or some other purchase he had been commissioned to make. Black Forest Village Stories “What sort of patent medicine are you going to manufacture?” asked the doctor by way of courtesy, but still “listening” to the taste of the wine. Young Wallingford The ingredients of patent medicines are ordinarily unknown, so that using them is unintelligent at best. American Red Cross Text-Book on Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick What wonder that quacks all make money, and that the "patent medicine interest" should have a representative in Congress! The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. He says that patent medicines are fakes and do much harm. Keep-Well Stories for Little Folks Neither patent medicines nor cosmetics nor municipal enterprise came into their lives at all. Captain Macedoine's Daughter Hawkins had closed a fifty-thousand-dollar advertising contract before he was quite sure whether he was going to sell patent medicine or shoe polish. Young Wallingford —Objections to self dosing in general apply even more strongly to using patent medicines. American Red Cross Text-Book on Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick The American Physicians may object to this advice because Beechams Pills are a patent medicine. Family Limitation Will you promise to help in stopping the use of patent medicines? Keep-Well Stories for Little Folks He was going to get his full money's worth, and if it was not in the news and editorials, he would take it out of the advertisements and patent medicine testimonials. Si Klegg, Book 5 (of 6) The Deacon's Adventures At Chattanooga In Caring For The Boys When he was gone there was a conspicuous silence between Wallingford and his wife for a few minutes, and then she asked: “Jim, are you actually going to start a patent medicine company?” Young Wallingford "A very good thing for rheumatic pains, I should think; certainly a much more rational remedy than patent medicines or Government poison," Mr. Bagges remarked. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 I sat through a patent medicine show there last week, because I didn't have the sense to stay away. The Wishing Moon "Of course, there's always the patent medicines; but I never found anything that cured my indigestion." Coquette Every American seemed to possess a patent medicine of some sort with which he dosed himself religiously in and out of season. Gold One of these is taking patent medicines and nostrums. Confessions of a Neurasthenic The sick man who turns to patent medicines for relief becomes the victim of ‘bottled faith.’ Carmen Ariza The narrow counter was piled high with biscuit-tins, bottles of sweets, patent medicines and articles of clothing, arranged in a sort of orderly confusion. East of the Shadows Adding to the novelty is the fact that all eight of these patent medicines, with which the Philadelphians concerned themselves half a century after American independence, were of English origin. Old English Patent Medicines in America With the various combinations, patent medicines, and so forth, the total would, I verily believe, reach eighty drugs. Amaryllis at the Fair Our cult is respectable and made up of gentlemen who seldom defile their mouths or stomachs with tobacco, cigarettes, impure words or patent medicine. Confessions of a Neurasthenic He is reported as saying that it makes little difference what a manufacturer puts into a patent medicine, for, after all, the effect of the medicine depends upon the faith of the user. Carmen Ariza And, curiously enough, the men who first began to appreciate the immense selling-power that lay in the printed advertisement were "makers" or "fakirs," of patent medicines. Commercialism and Journalism Across the Atlantic Ocean and on American soil these eight and other old English patent medicines, as of the year when the 12-page pamphlet was printed, had both a past and a future. Old English Patent Medicines in America Weary and disappointed, you turn to patent medicines—American and French patent physic is very popular now—and find the same things precisely under taking titles, enormously advertised. Amaryllis at the Fair I saw chewing-gum start for Rio and Quaker Oats for Shanghai, patent medicine for Nabat, curled hair for Yokohama, "movy" theater seats for Sydney, tomato soup for Cape Town and corsets for Rangoon. The Harbor Then he turned abruptly and pointed at the array of patent medicines adorning one of the shelves. The Twins of Suffering Creek It also refuses fortune-tellers the hospitality of its columns, though it is not so squeamish in regard to loan-agencies and patent medicines. Commercialism and Journalism One term arose in common speech to apply to both, and it was "patent medicine." Old English Patent Medicines in America I had tried everything in the shape of patent medicines for five years. Treatise on the Diseases of Women Not less dangerous is the use of so-called patent medicines. Rural Hygiene Unfortunately the ignorant Chinese put a great deal more faith in patent medicines and patent medicine fakirs than they do in approved sanitary measures. Where Half The World Is Waking Up The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions Champagne, munching biscuits, patent medicines, lying down as you are now. Olive in Italy Whatever similarities existed between the canons of regular pharmacy and the composition of patent medicines, there was a decided difference in the methods of marketing. Old English Patent Medicines in America The principle of charging what the traffic will bear is well illustrated by the relative rates on patent medicines and ale and beer, as maintained by the Official Classification. The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses In most cases, patent medicines are swindles, pure and simple, containing no remedial ingredients and acting only as stimulants. Rural Hygiene I can sell patent medicine to a doctor, I can! The River Prophet A patent medicine cart was in the street and one of its troupe, a basso, sang Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep with such art that I listened with delight. A Son of the Middle Border Certainly, there was a decided decrease in the Boston advertising of patent medicines received from London. Old English Patent Medicines in America In these last days, a man is known by the patent medicine promoter to whom he sends his testimonial photograph. Oklahoma Sunshine The wise man or woman will avoid patent medicines unless they carry their formula on their label and unless they are prescribed by some reputable physician. Rural Hygiene Afterward he was restricted to patent medicines, perfumes, soaps, toilet articles, cigars, razor strops, and all such, besides soda water in season. What's-His-Name There were all sorts of things, such as toothbrushes, patent medicines, babies' comforters, that Ranny's father with a Headache, or Ranny himself or his mother could be trusted to dispense at a moment's notice. The Combined Maze Such random assortments of prewar importations could hardly have met the American demand for the old English patent medicines created by a half century of use. Old English Patent Medicines in America The devil always has a patent medicine recommended to cure trouble and increase pleasure. Oklahoma Sunshine Another cause of inebriety in women is found in the patent medicines advertised as a panacea for all pain, which chemical analysis shows to be largely alcoholic. What a Young Woman Ought to Know From it ran the old high board fence plastered with ugly advertisements of soap or circus or patent medicine. The End of the Rainbow Collier's Weekly undertook to reveal the worthlessness and fraud in the trade in patent medicines. The New Nation However, as early as the 1750's, at least two of the English patent medicines, Daffy's and Stoughton's Elixirs, were being compounded in the colonies and packaged in empty bottles shipped from England. Old English Patent Medicines in America In other words, the copper cure is not a "patent medicine," with printed directions which any person could follow. The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) In Germany the contents of patent medicines are commonly published, and in this country, notably in Massachusetts, the State Boards of Health are analyzing these preparations, and making public their findings. The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) The scope of these gifts and acquisitions ranges from electronic resuscitators, microscopes, x-ray equipment, and spectacles, to patent medicines, amulets, apothecary tools, dental instruments, and office material of practitioners. History of the Division of Medical Sciences United States National Museum Bulletin 240, Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, paper 43, 1964 As I told the Company's Western representative some time ago, a man who could sell patent medicine to the folks round here could do a good trade in anything. Hawtrey's Deputy The significance of the fact that there were key suppliers of patent medicines for the American market lies in the selection process which resulted. Old English Patent Medicines in America Makers of deleterious or poisonous foods, and the vultures who prey on the sick through fraudulent patent medicines are being curbed by pure food and drug laws. McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. Another cause for the use of patent medicines is mysticism. The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) Their mother, the widow of that Makimmon whose disputatious temper had been dignified by the epitaph of “heroic sacrifice,” had died of a complicity of patent medicines the winter before. Mountain Blood A Novel Competition among preachers of penitence and servility is almost as great as among patent medicine quacks. Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 3, May 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature In 1824 there issued from the press in Philadelphia a 12-page pamphlet bearing the title, Formulae for the preparation of eight patent medicines, adopted by the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. Old English Patent Medicines in America Every patent medicine and every quack system is therefore able to count up its cures. The Faith Doctor A Story of New York When testimonials of the efficacy of patent medicines purporting to come from respectable divines, merchants, and statesmen are offered, the proof of their power seems incontestable. The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) Bottles of patent medicines, exhilarating or numbing as the purchaser might require, lined the shelves of his drug store. Mountain Blood A Novel These efforts are such conspicuous failures that even the patent medicine man has not found his "anti-fat nostrums" the happy means to fortune. The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure Another old English patent medicine against which the Department of Agriculture was forced to take action was Hooper's Female Pills. Old English Patent Medicines in America "Well, I don't just like your attitude, and——" "He's only selling a patent medicine," broke in Nort with a smile. The Boy Ranchers in Death Valley or Diamond X and the Poison Mystery "Prominent ministers" and "distinguished temperance workers" are often cited as bearing testimony to the virtues of some patent medicine. The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) Loud-voiced auctioneers were selling "patent medicines" and knickknacks of all sorts. When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine One would think, in hearing such a phraseology, he was listening to an agent, vending a patent medicine as an infallible cure, or trying to bring into use a labor-saving machine. Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply Some of the newer drugs can really perform certain of the healing miracles claimed by their pretentious proprietors for the old English patent medicines. Old English Patent Medicines in America He had seen in the paper an advertisement of a patent medicine, and thought there'd be no harm in trying it. The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands Consult a physician at the earliest possible moment, and put no faith in patent medicines. The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) They were rescued from this place by Jack's eccentric, wooden-legged Uncle, Captain Toby Ready, who, when at home, lived on a stranded wooden schooner where he made patent medicines out of herbs for sailors. The Ocean Wireless Boys And The Naval Code She said, ‘Don’t you know, Mr. Heyburn, that it takes at least one-half of that pension for patent medicine?’ Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Despite the fact that these early English patent medicines are nearly forgotten by the public today, their American career is none the less worth tracing. Old English Patent Medicines in America In this connection mention should be made of the great evil of patent medicines containing, and in reality essentially consisting, of alcohol. Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene As explaining this, in part, he affirmed that as many as five companies each expended over one million dollars annually in advertising patent medicines. The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) As for the quacks, patent medicines and universal remedies, I need only mention their names. The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages Then she enumerated the patent medicines they were taking. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Indeed, the old English patent medicines had long since moved westward with fur trader and settler. Old English Patent Medicines in America "The fake doctor who sells those patent medicines." Dave Porter and His Rivals or, The Chums and Foes of Oak Hall There are bad patent medicines—the proof of their fraudulent character is clear and overwhelming; but there are good ones whose merits have been obscured by the cloud of wholesale and popular condemnation. The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) Like most uneducated people, he could not understand how water could do any good for diseases, and went to the village-store to buy some patent medicine, which he took. Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms There is no doubt that it is the advertising which makes the patent medicine business so tremendously profitable. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Throughout history the claims made in behalf of patent medicines have been extreme. Old English Patent Medicines in America As I told the Company’s Western representative some time ago, a man who could sell patent medicine to the folks round here could do a good trade in anything. Masters of the Wheat-Lands Economy and convenience are added incentives to the employment of patent medicines. The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) In America they advertise it—like a patent medicine. American Sketches 1908 The main reason why so many people use patent medicines is the popular supposition that drugs cure disease. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Fur traders were still using old English patent medicines at mid-century. Old English Patent Medicines in America Most of the summer he drove about the prairie in a wagon, vending cheap oleographs and patent medicines, and during the winter contrived to obtain free quarters from his bachelor acquaintances. Masters of the Wheat-Lands These true "patent medicines" are generally artificial products of chemical manufacture, such as phenacetin. The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) They believed enormously in the virtue of spreading the blessings of Pemberton’s patent medicines; they worshiped the house policy. The Job An American Novel The majority of persons do not look beyond the fact that they seem to feel better after the use of a stimulating drug, or patent medicine. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say The 1953 edition of Pharmaceutical formulas, published by the London journal The Chemist and Druggist, includes formulas for eight of the ten old patent medicines described in this study. Old English Patent Medicines in America Same principle as the patent medicine—the only wheel that goes round there is a nice, fat temperance measure of alcohol, isn't it? The Varmint What are the motives which impel persons to buy and use patent medicines? The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) Mr. Pemberton is the Napoleon of patent medicine, and also the Napoleon of drugs used by physicians to cure the effects of patent medicine. The Job An American Novel She did give one to another patent medicine concern, but not to this, and never said either was used in the hospital, nor have they been. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Footnotes 1 Unless otherwise indicated, the early English history of these patent medicines has been obtained from the following sources: "Proprietaries of other days," Chemist and Druggist, June 25, 1927, vol. Old English Patent Medicines in America They were hailed as youthful prodigies and exploited around the country like a patent medicine or a side-show. The Uncalled A Novel Self-treatment with patent medicines in such cases is worse than useless—it is actually dangerous to life itself. The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) He had the unwholesome, frenetic aspect of the patent medicine enthusiast, not uncommon in the North. Two on the Trail A Story of the Far Northwest Suit could be brought for damages, but unfortunately the patent medicine people have unlimited money, and the hospital has not. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Thus had the old English patent medicines reached a new point in their American odyssey. Old English Patent Medicines in America How patent medicine firms and quacks dispose of the confidential letters sent to them. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies It is far easier to give general indications for the guidance of those wishing to shun unworthy patent medicines than to enable the reader to recognize the worthy article. The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) They ignore the physician and cure themselves with patent medicines or mental healing: they ignore the banker and broker and make their investments in accordance with their own amateurish inspiration. Psychology and Social Sanity It is more than likely that the “white-ribbon lady,” was a paid advertising agent of the patent medicine manufacturer, and wore a white-ribbon to gain the confidence of the Countess. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Throughout the 19th century, occasional criticism of the old English patent medicines had been made in the lay press. Old English Patent Medicines in America The patent medicine evil and the duty of the mothers of the race—"Blood money"—The people must be the reformers—Mothers' resolutions ... The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies The quantity of patent medicine sold in the United States is enormous. The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) Here's the Weekly Advocate, and a patent medicine almanac with all your dreams expounded, and a letter for Miss Carry M. Lea. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 A careful compilation of manufacturers’ announcements list 1,806 so-called patent medicines sold in open markets, in which alcohol, opium or other toxic drugs form constituent parts. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say For those who persist in using the formulas of the early English patent medicines, recipes are still available. Old English Patent Medicines in America Patent medicine concerns and letter brokers—The patent medicine conspiracy against the freedom of the press—How the patent medicine trust crushes honest effort ... The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies In the course of these articles he pointed out that about one hundred millions of dollars are paid annually for patent medicines in the United States. The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) Think of Sir Roger de Melville—and a patent medicine advertisement! Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 That the use of patent medicines has made many drunkards is a fact well attested. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say In America, however, the impact of the old English patent medicines has been largely absorbed and forgotten. Old English Patent Medicines in America These patients should particularly be guarded against the use of advertised patent medicines. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies Claiming a Great Variety of Cures.—Perhaps of all features of patent medicine advertising, this is the most alluring. The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) I am not going to have the name of Melville dragged all over the country in a patent medicine advertisement. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 The primary cause of so many cases of la grippe in this and other cities is the almost universal habit of drug taking from the milder tonics to patent medicines. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say The time seems ripe to write the epitaph of the old English patent medicines in America. Old English Patent Medicines in America It is estimated that the newspapers of the United States get about $100,000,000 per year from the advertisements of patent medicines and fake medical concerns. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies The only proper, ethical patent medicine is the one showing its exact composition, and refraining from promise of a cure in any disease. The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) Why, man, it would be patent medicine then, and no one could take it from you. The Bag of Diamonds The National Pure Food Law requires the percentage of alcohol in patent medicines, and the presence of different dangerous drugs, to be stated upon the label. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Many of the late 19th century listings continued to follow the procedure set early in the century of specifying two grades of the various patent medicines, i.e., Old English Patent Medicines in America There are two specific points in this crusade against the patent medicine fraud which should be the objective issues of all concerted effort to crush the evil. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies And he had the shoes and the clothes and the patent medicines. Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D. His depredations were particularly heavy against a certain shipment of patent medicine called "Tolu Tonic," which he ordered in huge quantities at the company's expense and drank up himself. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands She wishes also to acknowledge kindness and much help received from pharmacists and druggists in the fight against dangerous patent medicines and drug drinks sold at soda fountains. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Thus as the present century opened, the old English patent medicines were still being sold. Old English Patent Medicines in America First, to enact a law which would make it a felony for a newspaper to print a fraudulent patent medicine advertisement, or a fake medical cure. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies "He sounds like a prize fighter or the inventor of a patent medicine." No Man's Land Patent Medicines.—If nature does not promptly respond, there are many patent medicines which when taken at the time the monthly flow is to begin, will produce the desired result. Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage It has been necessary to make many changes in this edition because of the changing views on alcohol and the publicity on patent medicines. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say The law contained clauses aimed at curtailing the worst features of the patent medicine evil. Old English Patent Medicines in America The brother was greatly amused until he discovered, to his alarm, that his drink abhorring sister couldn't get along without her patent medicine bottle! The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies "Not unless the heathens get faith enough to believe, and faith is a thing you cannot send out through the mails as if it was sample packages of patent medicine!" A Circuit Rider's Wife The widespread heralding of patent medicines is also founded upon the principle of auto-suggestion. Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery It is contrary to pharmaceutical ethics for a pharmacist to specially endorse any proprietary article, or patent medicine. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Besides these eight, two other patent medicines, both elixirs, were destined for roles of such special interest that a brief look at their English background is warranted. Old English Patent Medicines in America One very thorough crusade has been instituted and efficiently carried through, exposing the evils of the patent medicine business. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies Miss Eyester perused the testimonials for a patent medicine contained in a pamphlet left by previous campers. The Dude Wrangler I got a half column ad. this morning from a patent medicine concern in the North, and they want an additional write-up. Old Ebenezer However, all of the glowing testimonials of wonderful benefits accruing from patent medicines are not what they seem to be. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say This latter interpretation would place Boylston well at the head of a long parade of American imitators of the old English patent medicines. Old English Patent Medicines in America Its very strength is the people whom it dupes and despises, because they supply the money with which the patent medicine combine fights its battles. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies Carrot kept untying his in good humor, and searching for patent medicines and a safety razor that could not be found. Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales Sarsaparilla, tobacco, blankets, patent medicines, etc., are there neatly displayed on freshly painted shelves, but no curios. Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska Australia has been such a harvest field for patent medicine manufacturers that a government commission was appointed to study the subject. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Early packages of these patent medicines which have been discovered indicate that paper labels were seldom applied to the glass bottles; instead, the bottle was tightly wrapped and sealed in one of these broadsides. Old English Patent Medicines in America The pure food and drug act compelled the manufacturers of patent medicines to publish the formulæ of their remedies on their labels. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies The doctors tell us that all patent medicines are built on a stock formula—a sedative, a purge, and a bitter. Pipefuls "And yet America is, par excellence, the country of bluff, of quackery in patent medicines, and of the booming of unworthy persons," the doctor laughed. The Doctor of Pimlico Being the Disclosure of a Great Crime On Sundays there were little groups around the trees where orators debated on everything from a patent medicine to the nature of God. A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell This may well be the first printed reference in America to an English patent medicine, and it certainly is the first newspaper advertisement for a nostrum. Old English Patent Medicines in America It might just as well have been any other patent medicine, or any fake cure. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies Now go to bed, send for your family solicitor, and make your will, meantime trying every half hour half a tumbler or so of any patent medicine the advertisement of which occurs to you. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 1, 1890 He had lost a small fortune in the patent medicine business and wanted employment badly. Memoirs I took her into dinner at the house of some friends right here in Chicago—I lived here about a month trying to learn a patent medicine business father had gone into. Blacksheep! Blacksheep! Then its printer had returned to England, where he took up the career of a patent medicine promoter, vending "the only Angelical Pills against all Vapours, Hysterick Fits." Old English Patent Medicines in America Much has been written about the patent medicine evil during the past few years. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies A patent medicine chap, I think he was, who'd made a lot of money out of something or other. The House of Torchy She took some patent medicines and went to one doctor, but without any results. Woman Her Sex and Love Life He sells everything in the dry goods line and groceries and patent medicines. Fred Fearnot's New Ranch and How He and Terry Managed It American imprints seeking to promote the English patent medicines were certainly rare. Old English Patent Medicines in America It has been estimated that three hundred millions of dollars are spent annually on patent medicines and fake medical cures in the United States. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies It reveals the secret processes of making patent medicines, inventions, and discoveries that have brought fortunes to their owners. How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony Among the most pernicious and dangerous of all the patent medicines on the market are the so-called "Headache Powders," whose almost instantaneous effects testify to the potency of the drugs they contain. Papers on Health Her healing powers were then unrivaled, and the list of cures which she is claimed to have effected surpasses that of all the patent medicines of our day. Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited Not only in complexity did the patent medicines resemble regular pharmaceutical compounds of the 18th century. Old English Patent Medicines in America If anyone is disposed to believe that this is an over-drawn picture, let him study the facts brought out in the recent patent medicine investigation. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies Yet to a child, Fred's schoolmates are experts on patent medicines and on the heredity that is alleged to be responsible for bad temper, running sores, tuberculosis, anæmia, and weak eyes. Civics and Health But somehow, unnoticed by his master, he managed to learn the alphabet from scraps of paper and patent medicine almanacs, and then no limits could be placed to his career. Pushing to the Front "Why, he could read a patent medicine almanac and not have a solitary symptom of some disease." Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers Price current of drugs, chemicals, oils, glassware, patent medicines, druggists sundries ..., Old English Patent Medicines in America It may be stated with the strongest emphasis, however, that no treatment from an advertising concern, or any patent medicine ever made, will in any sense cure any of these ailments. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies In the three-cent paper twenty-six out of thirty-eight items advertised food, clothing, patent medicine, or whisky. Civics and Health Art in America is like a patent medicine, or a vacuum cleaner. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets The swallowing of carbolic acid should be quickly followed by diluted alcohol, and if this drug is not ready at hand many of the numerous alcoholic patent medicines will do just as well. The Mother and Her Child Godfrey's Cordial was first mentioned in 1761.37 Thus, of the ten old English patent medicines which are the focus of the present study, eight had been advertised in the Boston News-Letter. Old English Patent Medicines in America The drugging of helpless infants has been a source of profit to the vender of patent medicines for many years. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies Thus Mr. Dooley with his usual wit and insight tells the American people why they spend over two hundred million dollars annually on patent medicines. Civics and Health The minutes slipped past as he devoured news items, the fiction supplement, and miraculous patent medicine announcements with amusing impartiality. A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life There was some good names on the hall directory; but most of 'em was little, two-room, fly-by-night firms, with a party 'phone for a private wire and a mail-order list bought off'm patent medicine concerns. Torchy On the other hand, none of these early English patent medicines, including Stoughton's Elixir and Turlington's Balsam, offered anything new, except possibly new combinations or new proportions of ingredients already widely employed in medicine. Old English Patent Medicines in America Under the same stipulation they cannot even accept matter to be paid for, if it in any way reflects upon the patent medicine business. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies It is the evils of patent medicines that do harm, not their name and not their patents. Civics and Health A chemistry, a book on electricity, a Bible, a worn copy of Tennyson, the "Yankee at King Arthur's Court," and a patent medicine almanac made up the list. The Master-Knot of Human Fate But somehow, unnoticed by his master, he managed to learn the alphabet from scraps of paper and patent medicine almanacs, and no limits could then be placed to his career. How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune Thus the Philadelphia pharmacists devised eight new standardized formulas, aimed at retaining the therapeutic goals of the original patent medicines, while brought abreast of current pharmaceutical knowledge. Old English Patent Medicines in America On the reverse side, in ordinary reading type should be a condensed and efficient argument against the use of patent medicines. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies Legislation is needed to crystallize modern knowledge and to establish in courts the right to protection against the evils of patent medicines. Civics and Health Those were the only patent medicines that advertised at that time. Watch Yourself Go By Another risk in taking medicines wholesale, especially those that are known as patent medicines, is that you never can be quite sure what you are taking, as their composition is usually kept a strict secret. A Handbook of Health Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in 1824 set forth in this pamphlet formulas for eight old English patent medicines. Old English Patent Medicines in America It is impossible to conceive of vipers and sharks being endowed with more contemptible and brutish qualities than those which characterize the vultures of the patent medicine and quack medical concerns. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies As inspection and testing were needed to insure hose equal to emergency pressure, so inspection and testing of patent medicines and drugs are needed to make legislation effectual. Civics and Health We have seen and treated scores of these patients, but never yet met a single case that had received benefit from patent medicines. Plain Facts for Old and Young Indeed, the stories concerning the cures effected by certain patent medicines are as wonderful as anything one ever reads in the 'Nights' themselves. Arabic Authors A Manual of Arabian History and Literature For decades thereafter the catalogs of wholesale drug firms continued to specify two grades of various patent medicines for sale, termed "English" and "American," "true" and "common," or "genuine" and "imitation." Old English Patent Medicines in America It is foolish and unnecessary to name any other patent medicine in the list of those that are distinctly harmful and dangerous to use. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies Americans consume more drugs and use more patent medicines than the people of any other country on the civilized globe. Civics and Health In many cases, also, a further tax has been paid for the government stamp on patent medicines. Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles Burlington is the most important manufacturing centre in the state; among its manufactures are sashes, doors and blinds, boxes, furniture and wooden-ware, cotton and woollen goods, patent medicines, refrigerators, house furnishings, paper and machinery. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Out of the several hundred patent medicines which 18th-century Britain had available, Americans dosed themselves with that score or more which the major exporters shipped to colonial ports. Old English Patent Medicines in America They are then the legitimate victims of the patent medicine shark or the fake-curist. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies The penny paper advertised fifty-two foods, garments, whiskies, patent medicines, or beautifiers urged upon health grounds. Civics and Health A company commences to make a patent medicine and then, in order to derive any profits from the investment, large quantities of the preparation must be sold. Herself Talks with Women Concerning Themselves Other industrial establishments of importance include petroleum refineries, ship-yards, brick, stone and lime works, saddlery and harness factories, lithographing establishments, patent medicine works, chemical works, and copper smelters and refineries. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" It was in this tradition of complex mixtures that most of the patent medicines may be placed. Old English Patent Medicines in America It is simply one more evidence added to the long list already noted that one does not readily acquire the habit of expecting to read the truth in a patent medicine advertisement. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies This law does not forbid patent medicines nor the use of alcohol and narcotics in patent medicines; it merely says, "Let the label tell, that all who buy may read." Civics and Health Then we think we are saving doctors' bills, when at the same time we are spending twice as much on questionable46 repairs—patent medicines, which often do more harm than good. Herself Talks with Women Concerning Themselves We had none of the sweet patent medicines that the children now cry for, and none of the smooth capsules or the pleasant comfits that turn medicine into confectionery nowadays. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 Although patent medicines were often prescription items, they did not have to be. Old English Patent Medicines in America It may be emphatically asserted that the patent medicine evil and the fraudulent medical cure more directly concern the mothers of the race than any others. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies Impure drugs may do as much harm as patent medicines containing harmful drugs. Civics and Health The patent medicine consumers seldom realize the nature of the medicine they take. Herself Talks with Women Concerning Themselves He was not a cigar and candy peddler, nor a patent medicine man, nor a machine agent, for Jim could recognize any of these in a minute. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, January 1878, No. 3 In these grateful acknowledgments to the potency of the patent medicine, the list of illnesses cured stretched far beyond the handful named in the patent specifications. Old English Patent Medicines in America The passage of The Pure Food and Drugs Act, caused, for a brief period, a cessation of the strenuous activity which had previously characterized the patent medicine business. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies Knowledge of the ingredients and dangers of patent medicines should be a prerequisite for the practice of medicine or pharmacy. Civics and Health He began, also, to distrust his own powers of diagnosis, and to study all the patent medicine advertisements he could lay his hands on. The Tangled Threads He says a patent medicine may be an abomination before the Lord, but that a patent medicine advertising agent looks to him like a very present help in time of trouble. Homeburg Memories With rare exceptions, therefore, the old English patent medicines were merely mentioned by name in American advertising. Old English Patent Medicines in America A third batch is: 44,000 "Bust Developer Letters,"—letters which one man in a patent medicine concern told me were "the richest sort of reading you could get hold of." The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies Much like a breakfast cereal, a patent medicine, or a soap. The Henchman It was a very nice advertisement an' no patent medicine could have sounded easier to take in. Susan Clegg and Her Neighbors' Affairs He claims that Lafe's circulation consists two thirds of wind and that he hasn't more than 750 bona fide subscribers, including deadhead copies to patent medicine houses. Homeburg Memories Since the English patent medicines had become every druggist's property, people who felt the need of such dosage would expect every druggist to have them in stock. Old English Patent Medicines in America In the same article is exposed the inhuman greed of patent medicine concerns that turn into cold cash the letters of patients afflicted with the most vital diseases. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies "He's as robust as a patent medicine witness after taking." The Henchman Instead of taking drugs and patent medicines for purifying the blood, one should study to live more hygienically. Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools If it weren't for the patent medicine ads, Ayers tells me, he wouldn't be able to keep afloat for want of ready cash. Homeburg Memories A critic of the medical scene in New York in the early 1750's asserted that physicians used patent medicines which they learned about from "London quack bills." Old English Patent Medicines in America This means that the newspapers bind themselves, under contract, not to print any matter in their reading columns which would be detrimental to the interests of the patent medicine manufacturers. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies He has a considerable wholesale trade in patent medicines and druggists' sundries. Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro To resort to some patent medicine for kidney trouble without knowing that such trouble exists, as is sometimes done, is both foolish and unhygienic. Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools If it weren't for the patent medicine people, we would have to pay for the Democrat all by ourselves. Homeburg Memories By the early 1820's, the old English patent medicines, whether of dwindling British vintage or of burgeoning American manufacture, were as familiar as laudanum or castor oil. Old English Patent Medicines in America The patent medicine territory is the whole country. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies It is extraordinary that humanity, which began with the apple and ended with the patent medicine, has not even yet become exactly like gods. Gilbert Keith Chesterton Many patent medicines are widely advertised for purifying the blood. Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools "After all, sir," said he, "viewed in a certain light it is only a method of trade competition; for when the sales of patent medicines decrease no doubt the doctors begin to profit." King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties Even the British blockade failed to prevent patent medicines from being shipped from wholesaler to retailer. Old English Patent Medicines in America Yet all of these patent medicines have made fortunes for their owners, some of them have made millions in a few years. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies It is hardly possible to take up any newspaper or magazine now a days without happening on advertisements of patent medicines whose chief recommendation is that they "contain phosphorus." Food Remedies Facts About Foods And Their Medicinal Uses Faith cure and patent medicines feed on the same victim. The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches Most of them are of the patent medicine specific type. The Third Great Plague A Discussion of Syphilis for Everyday People With these resources the latter went out on the road and sold the patent medicine for enough to make up the deficit. American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Duplicity and misrepresentation are not confined to patent medicines. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies As with patent medicines so with any other matter whatsoever that was advertised. The Free Press By seventeen hundred and sixty Hugh Gaine, printer, publisher, patent medicine seller, and employment agent for New York, was importing practically all the Englishman’s juvenile publications then for sale. Forgotten Books of the American Nursery A History of the Development of the American Story-Book Cheer up, mamma! there is a patent medicine just advertised in the Herald that hunts down, worries, shakes, and strangles hydrophobia, as Gustave Billon's Skye terrier does rats. Infelice There is a quantity of Garden Goozle going about nowadays that is as unbelievable, and quite as bad for the constitution and pocket, as the guarantees of patent medicines. The Garden, You, and I There is an association composed of the manufacturers of patent medicines and the owners of advertising medical concerns. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies Some of the patent medicines are changed a trifle from time to time to conform with the Pure Food Laws, etc. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada One of the most injurious of these patent medicines is a drink prepared with opiates, chiefly laudanum, under the name Godfrey’s Cordial. The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 You cannot recommend patent medicines, nor can you by administering small doses keep a man chained to his bed for two months when you can cure him with quinine in a week. Atlantis The shelving on its side walls was filled by straw hats, plug tobacco, bolts of cloth, pills and patent medicines and paste-board boxes containing shirts, handkerchiefs and underwear. A Man for the Ages A Story of the Builders of Democracy The remedy is doubtless as effectual as many patent medicines in Europe. Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 1 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government There are medicines—patent medicines, too—which have cured thousands of bodily diseases. The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton As our German peasants are cupped or bled at certain seasons, so do the English working-people now consume patent medicines to their own injury and the great profit of the manufacturer. The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 I tried several doctors and patent medicines but was only relieved for a short time. Food and Health One word from sister, cousin or aunt, and the invalid will cast aside the physician's remedies, and take quarts of some patent medicine. The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) He was a walking picture of that condition known to patent medicine as "before taking." The River and I He too was a missionary, and had come to warn and to save them from Christianity and all its corollaries—silk hats, piano playing, newspapers, and patent medicines. Mike Fletcher A Novel Proprietors of patent medicines offered him fabulous sums to link his fame with theirs. Americans and Others Although you know doctors and nurses do not use patent medicines I must say that I think there is nothing better than your Vegetable Compound. Food and Health Now, the attic was my private domain: there was the elixir shelf, full of patent medicines, hair-tonics, and soothing syrups. A Place so Foreign Nearly all patent medicines contain some alcohol, and in many, the quantity of alcohol is far in excess of that found in the strongest wines. General Science "They keep a few patent medicines and such over at the Lone Star Emporium——" I started to tell him. The Killer Now, if a patent medicine braces a patient up and gives him courage, it does all that can be done. The Clarion The patent medicine men are pleading—asking you to invest your money in their commodity—yet they do not appear to be doing so. The Art of Public Speaking Crowds of soaps and patent medicines straining on trees and signboard out of the gentle fields toward crowds of men, culminating at last in Woodlawn Cemetery, where the marble signposts of death flaunt themselves. Crowds A Moving-Picture of Democracy You will have heard that it is the history of a patent medicine—the nostrum of the title. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 Still another letter is from a patent medicine house, asking if the preacher will not write an endorsement of a new cure for rheumatism. T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him Brought up to the patent medicine trade, though at a distance, he thought of it, by habit, as on a par with other big businesses. The Clarion While considered less digestible raw than baked, they are still one of the most attractive, life-giving forms of food, and if eaten daily would prove a standard antidote to patent medicine. The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking Adapted to Domestic Use or Study in Classes The involved love affairs of George Ponderevo are less essential than the career of his uncle, the inventor of the patent medicine that gives a title to the book. H. G. Wells An' the new throat troubles, all of 'em," agreed Sarah Ellen; "an' has made trial of all the best patent medicines, an' could tell you their merits as no one else could in this vicinity. A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches He isn't one of these raw hayseeds who hands you chestnuts out of patent medicine almanacs. A Hoosier Chronicle To him, lunching, came a drummer of the patent medicine trade; a blatant and boastful fellow, from whose methods the diplomat in Mr. Belford Couch revolted. The Clarion One hesitates to write down these examples because when they are on paper they sound like advertisements of patent medicines. Outwitting Our Nerves A Primer of Psychotherapy He was "imaginative, erratic, inconsistent, recklessly inexact," and his imagination led him by way of a patent medicine to company promoting on the Hooley scale. H. G. Wells The British Medical Association of 429, Strand, London, W.C., issue two 1s. books—"Secret Remedies: What they cost and what they contain", "More Secret Remedies"—giving the ingredients and cost price of most patent medicines. Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia Their Causes, Symptoms, & Treatment There is such an article going the rounds, which is an advertisement of a patent medicine. Peck's Compendium of Fun Thence the interview pursued a course of indirect reflection upon the matter and method of the patent medicine trade, as exemplified in Certina and its allied industries. The Clarion The tale therein enfolded reminded him of a narrative testifying to the efficacy of a patent medicine. The Altar Steps And, what was worse, Mr. Pope continued to flourish like a green bay-tree, or like the proprietors of a patent medicine or a blackguard newspaper, or any other comparison you please. Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 A few patent medicines are of limited value; many are made up from prescriptions culled from medical works, and the rest are frauds, like potato starch. Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia Their Causes, Symptoms, & Treatment Another thing the burglar would find would be a protested draft from a great Philadelphia patent medicine advertiser. Peck's Compendium of Fun If those who were actually in the business had faith in the patent medicine's worth, it must be all that was claimed for it. The Clarion Among them we found empty bottles of a “Medical Discovery,” a patent medicine dispensed from Boston, favored in these islands where liquor is tabooed by government. White Shadows in the South Seas To this day Ireland secures exemption from the Land Tax, the Inhabited House Duty, the Railway Passenger Duty, and the tax on horses, carriages, patent medicines, and armorial bearings. Ireland and the Home Rule Movement This is the explanation of "Faith moving mountains", for the curative power of prayer, Christian Science, laying-on of hands, suggestion treatment and patent medicine, depends on man's own faith, not on the supernatural. Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia Their Causes, Symptoms, & Treatment Medicinal extracts and preparations of all kinds, including proprietary or patent medicines, but exclusive of quinine or preparations of quinine, opium, gange, and bhang. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 9, part 1: Benjamin Harrison Now, it is a rule of the patent medicine trade never to advertise an unwilling testimonial because that kind always has a kick-back. The Clarion Besides the "new" remedies, the Comstock firm—both Comstock firms—was also selling all of the "old" patent medicines, most of them of British origin. History of the Comstock Patent Medicine Business and Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills Nowadays they seem to prefer patent medicines from the chemist's shop. Wildflowers of the Farm In fact, the entire book was thus given out by one of the most enterprising of English pirates, as an advertisement for a patent medicine. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896 Proprietary or patent medicines, recommended by their proprietors as calculated to cure disease or alleviate pain in the human subject. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 9, part 1: Benjamin Harrison To him the patent medicine trade was simply a part of the world's business, like railroading, banking, or any other form of merchandising. The Clarion Father Gusson, such was the good man's name, sold all sorts of things, from tooth-brushes to shoes,—including hardware, glassware, notions, drugs, and even patent medicines. The Curly-Haired Hen I have seen patent medicines bearing the above title. Food for the Lambs; or, Helps for Young Christians Articles that are in any way dangerous or offensive, also patent medicines, nostrums, and empirical preparations whose ingredients are concealed, will not be admitted to the exposition. Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission Where the "van" kept merely rough clothing, tobacco and patent medicines, the store soon answered demands for all sorts of household luxuries and necessities. The Rules of the Game Painted broadly upon the face of the rock, in great white letters, was the advertisement of a patent medicine. Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work The phrenologists, the venders of patent medicine, the Christian Scientists, the single-taxers, and all who proclaim panaceas and nostrums make the same majestic and pontifical appeal to human nature. Emerson and Other Essays There must have been good patent medicines even in those days. Pioneers in Canada Under the first heading fall patent medicines and compounds of various kinds. Our Government: Local, State, and National: Idaho Edition Footnote 165: For we still name our new scientific instruments and patent medicines from Greek and Latin. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech Some of them were intelligent enough to admire the young Quixote, and acknowledged frankly that it was a pity to decorate their premises with signs of patent medicines and questionable soaps. Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work "Why, all you had to do was play 'The Goblin Man' to win and 'Murderallo' for a place—it was just like getting money from the patent medicine business." Get Next! The mining-claim was worth a very great deal; and the patent medicine did at least some of the things claimed for it. The Purple Heights There's thunder to pay about those patent medicines of yours. Elbow-Room A Novel Without a Plot Institutions and patent medicines to cure drinkers have only had a partial success. Recollections of a Long Life An Autobiography Some costumes advertised baking-powders, others patent medicines, others soaps, chewing tobacco, breakfast foods, etc. Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work Wanted—a gentleman to undertake the sale of a patent medicine. Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations He had done something of everything, from selling patent medicines to taking up oil and mining-claims. The Purple Heights He deals in bric-à-brac, sermons, government sinecures, pugs, false hair, light literature, patent medicines, and the fine arts. In the Days of My Youth Then they warn—patent medicine methods again —purchasers of machines that their particular brand of oil must be used to insure best results. Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile Being a Desultory Narrative of a Trip Through New England, New York, Canada, and the West, By "Chauffeur" They made their money in the East in a patent medicine—got scads of it, too. Cattle Brands A Collection of Western Camp-fire Stories Advertising, signs forbidden; of patent medicines, divorce matters, etc., prohibited. Popular Law-making To many natures the claims of the socialist party have all the allurements of patent medicine advertisements. Modern Economic Problems Economics Volume II It's mighty lucky for the gang that they swill patent medicines instead of lettin' that Jones up the street give' em a quick finish over the prescription counter. Mr. Scraggs At Tempe he had some sort of a shop in which he put up a dark-colored liquid--a patent medicine--which he sold by traveling about the country. Vandemark's Folly The Woman's Journal will not accept liquor or tobacco advertisements, or any advertisements of patent medicines, swindling schemes, or matters of a questionable character. The Torch Bearer A Look Forward and Back at the Woman's Journal, the Organ of the Woman's Movement There has been much legislation preventing the advertising of patent medicines, immoral remedies, divorce advertisement, and such matters. Popular Law-making "And what is the nature of your patent medicine?" said the Cynic, very cynically. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 25, 1919 We got in a line of patent medicines with pretty red and blue labels that took the popular taste. Mr. Scraggs And among other things I see now much better than I did why patent medicines are so popular. An Englishman Looks at the World Agents for books come to him for endorsements, with religious newspapers for subscriptions and articles, and with patent medicines urging him to be 'cured with one bottle.' Russell H. Conwell Had he only done so, what a lot of letters to the Times, advertisements of patent medicines; and Eugenic discussions we should have been spared! Essays in Rebellion Biscuits, Bread, &c., not only delights the palate, but eradicates many stubborn diseases, and brings about a steady improvement of health in cases where drugs, patent medicines, and all other unnatural methods have failed. Reform Cookery Book (4th edition) Up-To-Date Health Cookery for the Twentieth Century. Introduced ale and stout in England, whiskey in Scotland, everything in Ireland, cocktails and patent medicines in the United States, beer in Germany, champagne in France, absinthe in France, and vodka in Russia. Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914 Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be To dream that you resort to patent medicine in your search for health, denotes that you will use desperate measures in advancing your fortune, but you will succeed, to the disappointment of the envious. Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition He got a big torch and sold patent medicine on the streets at night to support the strikers. Edison, His Life and Inventions There are nearly as many mineral waters on the market as there are patent medicines, and both are about equally misrepresented and deceiving. Arizona Sketches I was sorting up patent medicines in the corner. Tono Bungay The patent medicine business also looked well enough, but it is somewhat overdone at all times, and requires a heavy outlay, with the probable result of ill success. The Autobiography of a Quack and the Case of George Dedlow To see or manufacture patent medicines, you will rise from obscurity to positions above your highest imaginings. Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition In the meantime he should eschew politics and confine himself to the publication of essays by village doctors and the exploitation of patent medicines. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 A feed store, its windows opaque with the dust of bran, a patent medicine advertisement painted on its roof. Main Street It would cost about sevenpence the large bottle to make, including bottling, and we were to sell it at half a crown plus the cost of the patent medicine stamp. Tono Bungay He sold some patent medicines, and had in his room several skulls and also a skeleton strung on wires. Joe the Hotel Boy She seemed to live for the sake of patent medicines and her chauffrette; she was always swallowing the one, and feeding the other. Tracks of a Rolling Stone Judson Parker had overtaken her on the road the preceding evening and told her that he had decided to humor the A.V.I.S. in its peculiar prejudice against patent medicine advertisements. Anne of Avonlea He suggested I should stay for another trip and meantime dose myself with a certain patent medicine in which his own belief was absolute. The Shadow Line; a confession "You are too young to be taking patent medicines." The Master Key, an Electrical Fairy Tale Founded Upon the Mysteries of Electricity Then he happened on a job to translate the advertisements of patent medicines which were sent broadcast to the medical profession in England. Moon and Sixpence Even Mademoiselle Henriette managed to go sometimes - aided by a little patent medicine, and when it was too hot for the chauffrette. Tracks of a Rolling Stone As a result of the provisions of the law in regard to patent medicines, many concerns which had been selling drugs that were falsely advertised as having curative effects were compelled to retire from business. The United States Since the Civil War Emulating the magnificent efforts of Anthony Comstock, after whom his grandson was named, he levelled a varied assortment of uppercuts and body-blows at liquor, literature, vice, art, patent medicines, and Sunday theatres. The Beautiful and Damned Well, I'm the wrong side of the counter to believe much in patent medicines. Traffics and Discoveries Back of these a dusty plaster cast of a male figure lightly draped seemed to represent the survival of the fittest over some strange and deadly patent medicine. The Fortune Hunter Safety matches, tinned foods, patent medicines are sent all over the world; but they are not produced all over the world. Alarms and Discursions Sinclair's book, together with a campaign of education conducted by the muckrake periodicals against harmful patent medicines aroused public interest to such a degree, that two important laws were passed. The United States Since the Civil War Some of them have faith in what the almanac, and the patent medicine may say, and in planting potatoes according to the moon, but they scout the idea of there being any fairies. Welsh Fairy Tales I cast about, amid patent medicine pamphlets, for something to read, but finding little, returned to the manufacture of the new drink. Traffics and Discoveries It has given me a breathing spell—. that and the hundred for signing a patent medicine testimonial; but I had to sacrifice more than half I got from both sources to pacify greedy creditors. The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day One proof of our assertions is the fact that these quack doctors and patent medicine proprietors rarely use their own names in their business. The Secrets of the Great City Opium or one of its derivatives is generally present in the patent medicines given for coughs. Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency Many advised him to try the sale of trinkets and drapery, or of pills and 'patent medicines,' instead of poetry; while others went so far as to recommend him to become an itinerant musician. The Life of John Clare The nostrum which they manufactured to govern us withal, and which at first had to be administered to us willy-nilly, has now become like that notorious patent medicine for which the children cry. The Subterranean Brotherhood Baker's newest discovery—yes, it does sound like a patent medicine. Young People's Pride A Novel And in spite of our protests, he began to read us his first effort, descriptive of a patent medicine. A Wodehouse Miscellany Articles & Stories Of course, people would have to stop taking patent medicines, which often start the victims on the road to degeneration. Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency But passing the picture store, I experienced a queer sensation—perhaps "that feeling of impending evil" we read about in the patent medicine advertisements. Mr. Hawkins' Humorous Adventures They also make a syrup of sarsaparilla, and one or two other patent medicines: they have a saw and a grist mill; the women make small fancy articles and baskets. The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation The bulk of the money had been traced to Mr. Farnaby himself, and had all been swallowed up by his newspaper, his patent medicine, and his other rotten speculations, apart from his own proper business. The Fallen Leaves In plain English, I invented a patent medicine. Blind Love The pills, potions, powders and patent medicines made to be taken indiscriminately, and which he more or less understands, may be still harmful yet much safer. Steam, Steel and Electricity They brought a newspaper and looked up the patent medicines; they gave him the foods that it recommended for invalids, and a little medicine as prescribed in the paper. Fifty-One Tales To these he was serving grape juice and patent medicines. L.P.M. : the end of the Great War He's got a newspaper, and a patent medicine, and a new bank, and I don't know what else. The Fallen Leaves One after the other all the patent medicines in creation had failed him. The Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories I've gone from city to city, working mostly for patent medicine men and filling out my income by what I earned in the streets. Windy McPherson's Son "Jeremiah, what patent medicine have you been taking?" Trials and Triumphs of Faith It's yours, and I want you should have it; most of it goes for patent medicines, anyway, when it gets here; we can't keep Reuben from buying 'em, and he's always changin' doctors. The Minister's Charge She was one of those people who are infatuated with patent medicines and all new-fangled methods of producing health or mending it. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 3. It is ugly, and bewilderingly painted over with the names of its destinations, and clad with signs of patent medicines and new plays and breakfast foods in every color but the colors of the rainbow. London Films The use of patent medicines likewise, or even many of the "old mother remedies" should never be indulged except on the advice of a competent physician. Parent and Child Volume III., Child Study and Training T. Bailey, the printer, evidently combined his printing business with the selling of patent medicines. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood Fifteen minutes' consideration of the great Sulphitic Theory will, as the patent medicines say, convince one of its efficacy. Are You a Bromide? The Sulphitic Theory Expounded and Exemplified According to the Most Recent Researches into the Psychology of Boredom Including Many Well-Known Bromidioms Now in Use We Americans are still in the patent medicine period of politics, trusting to political devices on the surface for the cure of any evils that arise. The Soul of Democracy The Philosophy of the World War in Relation to Human Liberty I am like the hypochondriac with his list of patent medicines. The Profiteers Some forms of this drug are found in nearly all the various patent medicines so freely sold as a cure-all for every mortal disease. A Practical Physiology They were quite convinced that patent medicines were very injurious. Up the Hill and Over It were to be wished that an accurate computation could be made how much money has been paid in the United States, within a score of years, for patent medicines. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 12, October, 1858 There is no patent medicine we can feed the American people and cure it of its diseases. The Soul of Democracy The Philosophy of the World War in Relation to Human Liberty The village could not really support an out-and-out chemist, so a local grocer had elected to stock patent medicines as a side line. The Postmaster's Daughter These patent medicines may appear to help one person and be fraught with danger to the next, so widely different are the effects of opiates upon different ages and temperaments. A Practical Physiology It seemed that Dr. Callandar, such a perfectly charming man in most respects, had a most absurd prejudice against patent medicines. Up the Hill and Over To furnish you with a list of all the patent medicines advertised is quite out of our power. Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 34, November 19, 1870 We shall conclude these observations with a few remarks on what are termed patent medicines, nostrums, or quack medicines, and their boasted pretensions in general. Thaumaturgia On a high shelf in one back corner of the store there was a small dust-covered stock of assorted patent medicines. The Winning of Barbara Worth I think you mistake my object," said Mr Hughes; "Tom is a boy, not a patent medicine. Tales of St. Austin's And all on account of a silly prejudice regarding patent medicines. Up the Hill and Over He had financed patent medicines, patent foods, patent corks, patent corkscrews, patent devices of all kinds, some profitable, some the reverse. The Prince and Betty |
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