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Princeton,: Princeton U.P., (1992).. xii, 299, [i] pp. 8vo. (16,5 x 24 cm.). Original cloth with dust-jacket. With numerous illustrations. Young, the foremost expert on the history of medical frauds, find quackery in the 1990s to be more extensive and insidious than in the earlier and allegedly more naive areas. "A masterful case history of the complexity of achieving… Read more about this item

Burlington,: Henry, Johnson & Lord,, (n.d., ca. 1905).. 16 pp. 8vo (15 x 22 cm.). Original illustrated wrappers (small piece from the upper corner of rear side gone). ¶ Songs and advertisements for 7 nostrum by this firm. One of them, N.H. Downs' Elixir, "was reported by the federal chemist to be a sweetened solution of opium, ipecac, glycerin,… Read more about this item

New York,: Blue Ribbon Books,, (1932).. [vi], 382 pp. 8vo (14,5 x 21,3 cm.). Original cloth (spine faded), uncut.

Buffalo,: W.D.M.A.,, (n.d. ca. 1900).. 48 pp. 12mo (8,5 x 14 cm.). Original printed wrappers. With illustrations and portraits. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets and other panaceas, together with the usual testimonies.

New York,: Flanders Co,, 1895.. 16 pp.12mo (11 x 14,5 cm.). Original printed wrappers. With some illustrations. A booklet for Rush's Sarsaparilla and Iron, Mandrake pills, Lung Balm, Rush's Bitters, etc.

New York,: Lynmann Brown,, 1896.. 32 pp. 12mo (11,5 x 16 cm.). Original illustrated wrappers. With some figures. A very attractive copy in a very nicely illustrated cover. Estimonials and advertisements for the various Lynman Brown remedies such as "soothing Ointment", "Seven Barks" etc.

St. Michael,: Kilian Co.,, (n.d., ca. 1920).. 12mo (8,5 x 14,5 cm.). Original printed wrappers (slightly damaged). Text printed in geen. Description of about 30 family remedies and preparation sold by this company.

New York,: Harper's,, (n.d. ca.1900).. One leave, printed at recto & verso. 17,4 x 25 cm.-- (Small tear in the lower margin, repaired). ¶ "The active ingredient in Vin Mariani was cocaine, extracted from the leaves of Erythroxylon coca, a plant indigenous to Peru. Introduced in 1871 by Mariani (1838-1914) who developed it while working in a Parish pharmacy...… Read more about this item

Buffalo,: W.D.M.A.,, (n.d. ca. 1910).. 48 pp. 12mo (8,5 x 14 cm.). Original printed wrappers. With numerous illustrations and portraits. A nice copy. Interpretation of dreams and, of course, many testimonies in favour of the nostrums and cures provide by the Worl'd Dispensary Medical Association.

New York,: The Cosmopolitan,, (n.d. ca. 19000.. One illustrated advertisment leaf, separated from the Cosmopolitan, for one of the many World's Dispernsary Medical Associations' nostrums. 15 x 24 cm.

Chattanooga Co.,: Chattanooga,, 1904.. 32 pp. 8vo (13 x 19,5 cm.). Original printed wrappers. With numerous portraits. 27 Songs and testimonies. "Wine of Cardui" for Women and "Black-Draught" for all, became virtual folk remedies, and have remained so for almost a century.

Paris,: Martin & George Jouvenel,, 1705.. [xxiv], 180, [iv] pp. 12mo (9,3 x 15 cm.). Contemporary full calf, spine with 5 raised bands, in compartments gilt, gilt lettered on red morocco label (gilt is faintly; top and bottom of spine with some slight loss of leather; sorners slightly rubbed; joints a little worn), red edges. ¶ Very rare. Second… Read more about this item

(Columbus, Ohio,: G.G. Green,, 1889).. 32 pp. 8vo (17 x 23 cm.).Original printed wrappers (slightly damaged & stained). With numerous charming woodcut illlustrations. Out of the Back Room in G.G. Green's store came such marvels as Boschee's German Syrup and Green's August Flower

(New York,: Donaldson bros,, ca. 1887).. A charming chromolithograph (14,5 x 12 cm.) which has served as a cover for Benson's Capicine Plaster advertisement booklet (not present). The art work was done by Slabury & Johnson.

Boston,: Remington,, (n.d., ca. 1910).. 4 page advertisement booklet (13 x 18 cm.). With a portrait. Freckles, Moles, Warts, Birthmarks, Red Nose, Pimples, Black Heads, etc.

New York,: Von Graef,, 1889.. 32 pp. Small 8vo (13 19,5 cm.). Original illustrated wrappers. With some plates and illustrations. Nicy copy of this rare piece of quackery, "the Von Graef Method" thas cures all sexual disorders. Not in Cramp.

Philadelphia,: J.H. Schenck,, (n.d. ca. 1910).. 6 pp. 12mo (9 x 13 cm.). Original printed wrappers. A volume of cures and testimonials. Schenck's bestselling nostrums were Seaweed Tonic, Mandrake Pills and Pulmonic Syrup, the latter a remedy diseases of the lungs contained 96,4% sugars (Cramp p. 104 for the full analysis).

South Bend,: The Whitehall Megrimine Co,, (n..d., ca. 1910).. A folded leave of grey paper (24,5 x 13 cm.), printed recto/verso in blue. ¶ A flyer for Whitehall's misbranded nostrum. It contained 211.88 grains of acetanilid to each avoirdupois ounce. Caffein, salol and cayenne pepper also were present. In 1916 the company was fined $50 and costs for false… Read more about this item

Freeport,: Rawleigh,, 1905.. 126, [iv] pp. 8vo (15 x 22 cm.). Original coloured printed wrappers (slightly soiled). Witj numerous portraits of testimoners, figures and typographical decorations. ¶ Most of Rawleight's nostrums contained alcohol, chloroform, menthol, guaicacol and were sold under the claim that they would cure allmost everything. Sold under the condition "no cure, no pay". See Cramp II,… Read more about this item

(Philadelphia,, n..d. ca. 1895). Chromolithograph (10 x 12 cm.). A nice coloured trading card showing a Gipsy fortune-teller and a boy & girl, a cat and a owl. On the verso the advertisments for some of Jayne's products, i.a. the "Jayne's Expectorant". The latter nostrum have caused at least the death of one child (see A. Cramp I, 455).… Read more about this item