Nostrums, Patent Medicines · Garrison-Morton-Norman

Year	Title & Tags	Author(s)
1790	Essays on fashionable diseases. The dangerous effects of hot and crouded rooms. The cloathing of invalids. Lady and gentlemen doctors. And on quacks and quackery. With the genuine patent prescriptions of Dr. James's fever power, Tickell's aetherial spirit, & Godbold's balsam, taken from the Rolls in Chancery, and under the seal of the proper officers; and also the ingredients and compostion of many of the most celebrated quack nostrums, as analized by several of the best chemists in Europe. By James M. Adair, Formerly M.D.... With a dedication to Philip Thicknesse ... To which is added a dramatic dialogue. Published for the benefit of the tin-miners in Cornwal Traditional & Indigenous Europe & United Kingdom Alternative & Fringe Medicine Pharmacology & Therapeutics	ADAIR, James Makittrick (1728 – 1802)
1909	Secret remedies, what they cost and what they contain. Based on analyses made for the British Medical Association. Traditional & Indigenous Alternative & Fringe Medicine Pharmacology & Therapeutics	BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
1911–1936	Nostrums and quackery: Articles on the nostrum evil and quackery reprinted from the Journal of the American Medical Association. 3 vols. Traditional & Indigenous Alternative & Fringe Medicine Pharmacology & Therapeutics	CRAMP, Arthur Joseph (1872 – 1951)
1961	The toadstool millionaires. Traditional & Indigenous Alternative & Fringe Medicine Pharmacology & Therapeutics	YOUNG, James Harvey (1915 – 2006)
1989	Pure food: Securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906. Public Health Pharmacology & Therapeutics Ethics & Law Historiography & General Works	YOUNG, James Harvey (1915 – 2006)

1790 ADAIR, James Makittrick (1728 – 1802)

Essays on fashionable diseases. The dangerous effects of hot and crouded rooms. The cloathing of invalids. Lady and gentlemen doctors. And on quacks and quackery. With the genuine patent prescriptions of Dr. James's fever power, Tickell's aetherial spirit, & Godbold's balsam, taken from the Rolls in Chancery, and under the seal of the proper officers; and also the ingredients and compostion of many of the most celebrated quack nostrums, as analized by several of the best chemists in Europe. By James M. Adair, Formerly M.D.... With a dedication to Philip Thicknesse ... To which is added a dramatic dialogue. Published for the benefit of the tin-miners in Cornwal

An attack on quack medicines, etc. with one of the most verbose title pages of the 18th century. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 10002 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12191

1909 BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Secret remedies, what they cost and what they contain. Based on analyses made for the British Medical Association.

This exposé of useless or dangerous drugs was followed in 1912 by More secret remedies. What they cost & what they contain. Based on analyses made for the British Medical Association. Digital facsimile of the 1909 wor…

GMN 12411 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14641

1911 –1936 CRAMP, Arthur Joseph (1872 – 1951)

Nostrums and quackery: Articles on the nostrum evil and quackery reprinted from the Journal of the American Medical Association. 3 vols.

Cramp was director of the AMA's Propaganda for Reform Department. "In 1911, Cramp published the first of three volumes called Nostrums and Quackery,[3] which would become "a veritable encyclopedia on the nostrum evil …

GMN 12412 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14642

1961 YOUNG, James Harvey (1915 – 2006)

The toadstool millionaires.

Chronicles the rise of the patent medicine trade from its beginnings in colonial America until passage of the first federal food and drug law. Digital text available from quackwatch.org at this link.

GMN 12413 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14643

1989 YOUNG, James Harvey (1915 – 2006)

Pure food: Securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906.

GMN 12414 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14644