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Paperback Snake Oil, Hustlers and Hambones: The American Medicine Show Book

ISBN: 0786422289

ISBN13: 9780786422289

Snake Oil, Hustlers and Hambones: The American Medicine Show

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Long before television and radio commercials beckoned to potential buyers, the medicine show provided free entertainment and promised cures for everything from corns to cancer. Combining elements of the circus, theater, vaudeville, and good old-fashioned entrepreneurship, the showmen of the American medicine show sold tonics, ointments, pills, extracts and a host of other "wonder-cures," guaranteed to "cure what ails you." While the cures were...

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