The Medical Messiahs: A Social History of Health Quackery in 20th Century America

by James Harvey Young

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James Harvey Young describes the development of patent medicines in America from the enactment in 1906 of the Pure Food and Drugs Act through the mid-1960s. Many predicted that the Pure Food and Drugs Act would be the end of harmful nostrums, but Young describes in colorful detail post-Act cases involving manufacturers and promoters of such products as Cuforhedake Brane-Fude, B. & M. "tuberculosis-curing" liniment, and the dangerous reducing pill...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0691005796

ISBN13:9780691005799

Release Date:January 1975

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:522 Pages

Weight:1.55 lbs.

Dimensions:1.3" x 8.5" x 5.5"

Related Subjects

Health Health, Fitness & Dieting Health, Fitness & Dieting Medical Books Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Psychology Psychology & Counseling

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