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Title: Old English Patent Medicines in America

Author: George B. Griffenhagen
James Harvey Young

Release Date: October 2, 2009 [EBook #30162]

Language: English

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THE MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY:

PAPER 10

OLD ENGLISH PATENT MEDICINES IN AMERICA

_George B. Griffenhagen_ and
_James Harvey Young_

ORIGINS OF ENGLISH PATENT MEDICINES 156

ENGLISH PATENT MEDICINES COME TO AMERICA 162

COMPLEX FORMULAS AND DISTINCTIVE PACKAGES 166

SOURCE OF SUPPLY SEVERED 168

PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF PHARMACY FORMULARY 174

ENGLISH PATENT MEDICINES GO WEST 176

THE PATENT MEDICINES IN THE 20TH CENTURY 179

OLD ENGLISH PATENT MEDICINES IN AMERICA

_By George B. Griffenhagen and James Harvey Young_

_Bateman's Pectoral Drops, Godfrey's Cordial, Turlington's Balsam of
Life, Hooper's Female Pills, and a half-dozen other similar nostrums
originated in England, mostly during the first half of the 18th
century. Advertised with extravagant claims, their use soon spread to
the American Colonies._

_To the busy settler, with little time and small means, these
ready-made and comparatively inexpensive "remedies" appealed as a
solution to problems of medical and pharmaceutical aid. Their
popularity brought forth a host of American imitations and made an
impression not soon forgotten or discarded._

THE AUTHORS: _George B. Griffenhagen, formerly curator of medical
sciences in the Smithsonian Institution's U.S. National Museum, is now
Director of Communications for the American Pharmaceutical Association.
James Harvey Young is professor of history at Emory University. Some of
the material cited in the paper was found by him while he held a
fellowship from the Fund for the Advancement of Education,