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

by James Harvey Young

Book Overview

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"