The Great Patent Medicine Era or, Without Benefit of Doctor de Hechtlinger, Adelaide - 1970

New York: Galahad Books, (c. 1970). reprint. hardcover. Very good/very good. Quarto (approx. 9 1/2" wide by 11 5/8" tall), 248 pages. Many illustrations. Top corner of front free end paper clipped; some ink notes on last page, else Very Good. Dust jacket price clipped, otherwise in very good condition. "Here, with lavish illustrations and in loving detail, is the story of American Folk Medicine from the end of the Civil War until 1906, when Congress, by passing the Pure Food and Drug Act, put an end forever to some of the nation's more bizarre nostrums. It was a time of Indian Snake Root Oil and Electric Belts, of tonics and phosphates, of pills, powders, and elixirs, of herb teas and aphrodisiacs." --from the dust jacket. 122615B This oversize book will incur additional postage for expedited or international shipping.

Galahad Books c, 1970-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good.

Grosset & Dunlap, New York: (1970)., 1970 248p. Profusely illustrated. XLib. Folio. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket. "Here, with lavish illustrations and in loving detail, is the story of American Folk Medicine from the end of the Civil War until 1906, when Congress, by passing the Pure Food and Drug Act, put an end forever to some of the nation's more bizarre nostrums. It was a time of Indian Snake Root Oil and Electric Belts, of tonics and phosphates, of pills, powders, and elixirs, of herb teas and aphrodisiacs. It was a wild, robust, free-wheeling epoch, when much that was put forward could only be described as far-fetched. In addition to the home remedies there were the countless thousands of patent medicines. To sell them, the manufacturers made any claims they could think of, and hired top-notch illustrators to embellish those claims. and a revolution took place in the field of graphic arts. Many of the steel engravings and color reproductions required so much… Leer más

New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Hardcover. 1970. 1st Edition. 4to 248pp . Very Good in Good+ DJ. Color illustrations One corner slightly bumped DJ chipped .

New York,: Galahad Books,, (n.d. ca. 1985).. 248 pp. Large 4to (24,5 x 30 cm.). Original cloth picorial dust-jacket (dust-jacket with some small tears at top). With numerous illustrations of patent medicine, advertisements, brochures, etc. A popular, but interesting, history of American quackery. Vey attractive graphics and bood design.