Good for what ails you
Subtitle: Dayton's golden age of patent medicine
By: by Curt Dalton
Publisher: [C. Dalton]
Published: 2005
Place of publication: [Dayton, Ohio]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9781492894063
Subjects: Patent medicines; History
Other titles: Dayton's golden age of patent medicine
Description: Contains information (and photographs) about a sampling of potions, tonics, liniments, and cure-alls manufactured in Dayton from around 1850 to the 1930s. Also includes a list of over 200 individuals and companies who advertised themselves as either making or selling patent medicines.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Patent medicines : what were they?; title: The lure of patent medicines; title: Cure-alls; title: Doctors; title: Dr. Harter Medicine Company; title: Cooper Medicine Company; title: Druggists; title: Back to nature; title: Indian medicines; title: Miscellaneous nostrums; title: Blackburn Products Company; title: Unmentionable ailments; title: Vanity nostrums; title: Testimonials; title: The art of advertising; title: The decline of patent medicines; title: Patent medicine sellers, 1850-1933.