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It's all about the stories.

1. Travelling quacks were actually a thing:

Pt 1. She voided a frog, a newt and two worms. August 2020.

Pt 2. Hezekiah Bowling was a happy man. August 2020.

Pt 3. William Kirk was a new woman. January 2021.

Pt 4. Fourteen missing feather beds. January 2021.

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Patent medicines.

1. When is a patent medicine not a patent medicine? November 2021.

2. Will the real Daffy's Elixir please stand up? January 2022.

3. One Daffy's, or four, or 26, or more? January 2022.

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Patent medicine bottles

1. Turlington's Balsam of Life: the 1754 design. September 2020.

2. Jesuit's Drops, 1755 - circa 1860. October 2020.

3. Cabburn’s Anti-Doloric Oil, 1840 - circa 1920s. October 2020.

4. John Lynch, Duke Street, St James's, 1812 - 1829. October 2020.

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Welcome to curesalldiseases.com, a site where, I’m sorry to say, you won’t find any genuine cures for any actual diseases.

 

What you will find are true stories of larger-than-life characters, unfounded claims, broken promises, pseudo-science, outright fraud, poisonous rivalry, and fortunes made and lost in the cause of parting the sick, and the ever-present worried well, from their money.

 

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