Patent Medicine (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Van Wormer.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Meredith Linn.

Patent medicines were immensely popular in the 19th century. They promised astounding cures, were unregulated and relatively inexpensive, and permitted individuals to self-medicate without an interfering physician.  Archaeologists have often begun their interpretations of these curious commodities with the premises that they were lesser quality alternatives to physicians’ prescriptions and thus more appealing to poorer alienated groups (who  used them passively as advertised) than to the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only American Medical Association.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Melanie S. Radtkey.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Patent medicine is an unregulated proprietary product made and marketed under a patent and available with prescription. By the middle of the 19th century patent medicines had become a major industry in America. This paper examines the use of patent medicine and other personal wellness products within an urban San Francisco...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jerome E. Petsche.

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