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Jeremy Kemp
Nov 11, 202112 min read
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.
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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
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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Jeremy Kemp
Aug 21, 20206 min read
Stories 1, part II. Hezekiah Bowling was a happy man.
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
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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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