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unusual facts about Patent medicine


Henry Bracken

In his method of practice as a medical man he was remarkably simple, discarding many of the usual nostrums.


John McKeithen

McKeithen changed his mind after opposition developed because LeBlanc had been politically damaged in the 1950s by his promotion of the patent medicine Hadacol.

Thomas Allcock

Allcock returned to New York after the war and joined up with Benjamin Brandreth in the manufacturing and sale of popular patent medicines.

William Henry Comstock

He started his business in 1854, William H. Comstock Company, Ltd., which sold patent medicine including Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills, Dead Shot Pellets and McKenzus Dead Shot Worm Candy.

Willis Sharpe Kilmer

The Swamp Root formulation fell out of favor after the advent of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act, which resulted in the federal government imposing testing and labeling requirements on a variety of products, including patent medicines with dubious claims.


see also

Pinkham

Lydia Pinkham, a patent medicine manufacturer and businesswoman

Pond's

Pond's Cream was invented in the United States as a patent medicine by pharmacist Theron T. Pond (1800–1852) of Utica, New York, in 1846.