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Patent medicines 1: When is a patent medicine not a patented medicine?
The majority of ‘patent medicines’ on both sides of the Atlantic were not and never had been patented.
Jeremy Kemp
Nov 11, 202112 min read
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Bottles 1. Turlington's Balsam of Life: the 1754 design.
"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
Jeremy Kemp
Sep 30, 202012 min read
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