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- catalog abstract "This book is about the history of proprietary medicines in America, from the early 18th century appearance of patented brands from England to the early 20th-century enactment of national legislation to restrain abuses in the packaged medicine industry. The author traces the development of patent medicine promotion and criticism, relating it to broader trends in health, education, journalism, marketing, and government.".
- catalog contributor b1786632.
- catalog contributor b1786633.
- catalog contributor b1786634.
- catalog coverage "United States".
- catalog created "1961.".
- catalog date "1961".
- catalog date "1961.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1961.".
- catalog description ""At the sign of Galen's head": English patent medicines in colonial America -- Galvanising trumpetry: American independence in the realm of pseudo-medicine -- Vials and vermifuges: the expansion of American nostrums during the early 19th century -- "The old wizzard." Thomsonianism, a democratic system of patented medication -- Hercules and hydra: the first significant critique of patent medicines -- Purgation unlimited: patent medicines and the press -- "To arms! to arms!!" and after: the Civil War, its aftermath, and the great boom -- The great outdoors: patent medicine advertising by paint and poster -- St. George and the dragon: the patent medicine almanac -- "A microbe is a microbe": quackery and the germ theory -- The pattern of patent medicine appeals: an analysis of the psychology of patent medicine advertising -- Medicine show: the linking of entertainment to nostrum promotion -- "The great American fraud": acceleration of the patent medicine critique -- Dr. Wiley's law: the passage of the pure food and drugs act of 1906 -- Half a century later: sobering continuities in the realm of patent medicines.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "This book is about the history of proprietary medicines in America, from the early 18th century appearance of patented brands from England to the early 20th-century enactment of national legislation to restrain abuses in the packaged medicine industry. The author traces the development of patent medicine promotion and criticism, relating it to broader trends in health, education, journalism, marketing, and government.".
- catalog extent "xii, 282 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Toadstool millionaires.".
- catalog isFormatOf "Toadstool millionaires.".
- catalog issued "1961".
- catalog issued "1961.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,".
- catalog relation "Toadstool millionaires.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "615.88".
- catalog subject "Drug Industry history".
- catalog subject "Nostrums history".
- catalog subject "Patent medicines Law and legislation United States.".
- catalog subject "Patent medicines.".
- catalog subject "Pharmaceutical Preparations history.".
- catalog subject "Pharmacy history.".
- catalog subject "QV 711 AA1 Y7t 1961".
- catalog subject "Quackery history.".
- catalog subject "RM671.A1 Y6".
- catalog tableOfContents ""At the sign of Galen's head": English patent medicines in colonial America -- Galvanising trumpetry: American independence in the realm of pseudo-medicine -- Vials and vermifuges: the expansion of American nostrums during the early 19th century -- "The old wizzard." Thomsonianism, a democratic system of patented medication -- Hercules and hydra: the first significant critique of patent medicines -- Purgation unlimited: patent medicines and the press -- "To arms! to arms!!" and after: the Civil War, its aftermath, and the great boom -- The great outdoors: patent medicine advertising by paint and poster -- St. George and the dragon: the patent medicine almanac -- "A microbe is a microbe": quackery and the germ theory -- The pattern of patent medicine appeals: an analysis of the psychology of patent medicine advertising -- Medicine show: the linking of entertainment to nostrum promotion -- "The great American fraud": acceleration of the patent medicine critique -- Dr. Wiley's law: the passage of the pure food and drugs act of 1906 -- Half a century later: sobering continuities in the realm of patent medicines.".
- catalog title "The toadstool millionaires : a social history of patent medicines in America before Federal regulation / James Harvey Young.".
- catalog type "text".