This article gives an overview of the evolution of Daffy's Elixir bottles during the long lifetime of the medicine, from the...

Twenty seven recipes give us twenty-six different medicines, but at least it's possible to say roughly what was in the bottles. Probably.

In a world where recipes were widely published, could anyone in the 19th century really claim to be the sole manufacturer of the genuine...

The majority of ‘patent medicines’ on both sides of the Atlantic were not and never had been patented.

Door-to-door quack doctors were actually a thing. Part IV. Click here for Part I of Door-to-door quacks were actually a thing (She voided...

Well, THAT was careless.

Another 'medicine' from an unlikely source: this time a West Indian slave who gained his freedom in late Georgian England.

Cabburn's Anti-Doloric Oil was invented in 1840 by a publican and Wine & Spirit merchant, John Francis Bricknell Cabburn.

On 29th October 1755 a patent was granted to Robert Walker of London for "A new invented medicine, called Jesuit's drops ...".

"BY THE KING's ROYALL PATENT GRANTED TO ROBt TURLINGTON FOR HIS INVENTED BALSAM OF LIFE. LONDON. JANy 26 1754." Turlington used at least thr

Hezekiah was a veteran of the travelling quack business, having been on the road (but not on the run) for most of the last ten years

On a Tuesday night in May a "GANG of dangerous IMPOSTERS" were apprehended, "some of them with quack medicines".