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Jeremy Kemp
Jan 11, 20228 min read
Patent Medicines 3: One Daffy's, or four, or 26, or more?
Twenty seven recipes give us twenty-six different medicines, but at least it's possible to say roughly what was in the bottles. Probably.
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Jeremy Kemp
Jan 9, 20229 min read
Patent Medicines 2: Will the real Daffy's Elixir please stand up?
In a world where recipes were widely published, could anyone in the 19th century really claim to be the sole manufacturer of the genuine...
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Jeremy Kemp
Jan 13, 20218 min read
Stories 1, part IV. Fourteen missing feather beds.
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...
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Jeremy Kemp
Jan 10, 20218 min read
Stories 1, part III. William Kirk was a new woman.
Well, THAT was careless.
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Jeremy Kemp
Oct 26, 20208 min read
Bottles 4. John Lynch, Duke Street, St James's, circa 1812 - 1829.
Another 'medicine' from an unlikely source: this time a West Indian slave who gained his freedom in late Georgian England.
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Oct 25, 20208 min read
Bottles 3: Cabburn (Cabburn’s Anti-Doloric Oil, Cabburn’s Balsam of Herbs), 1840 - circa 1920s.
Cabburn's Anti-Doloric Oil was invented in 1840 by a publican and Wine & Spirit merchant, John Francis Bricknell Cabburn.
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Oct 3, 20209 min read
Bottles 2. Jesuit's Drops, 1755 - circa 1860s.
On 29th October 1755 a patent was granted to Robert Walker of London for "A new invented medicine, called Jesuit's drops ...".
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Jeremy Kemp
Sep 30, 202012 min read
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
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