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.

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".