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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
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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Aug 18, 20205 min read
Stories 1, part I. She voided a frog, a newt and two worms.
On a Tuesday night in May a "GANG of dangerous IMPOSTERS" were apprehended, "some of them with quack medicines".
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