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References and Bibliography.

This page includes most of the more important references cited elsewhere on this site (some of the more obscure or very specific references are only listed on the particular page where they are cited). It also includes a handful of overviews and background reading that may not be cited elsewhere.

For obvious reasons this page is starting off small. It will grow.

Books.

Adams, S.H. (1906). The Great American Fraud. Articles on the Nostrum Evil and Quacks, in Two Series, Reprinted from Collier's Weekly. P.F. Collier & Son. 146pp.

Anonymous. (1805). Essay on Quackery, and the dreadful consequences arising from taking advertised medicines; illustrated with remarks on their fatal effects: with an account of a recent death occasioned by a quack medicine. Printed by T. Clayton, Hull. 140pp.

British Medical Association (1909). Secret Remedies: What They Cost and What They Contain. British Medical Association, London. 195pp.

British Medical Association (1912). More Secret Remedies: What They Cost and What They Contain. British Medical Association, London. 282pp.

Brooks, A. (Ed.) (2015). The Importance of British Material Culture to Historical Archaeologies of the Nineteenth Century. Society for Historical Archaeology Series in Material Culture. University of Nebraska Press and SHA, Lincoln & London. 369pp.

Griffenhagen, G. & Bogard, M. (1999). A History of Drug Containers and Their Labels. American Institute for the History of Pharmacy, Madison, WI, USA. 150pp.

Haycock, D.B., and Wallace, P. (eds). (2005). Quackery and Commerce in Seventeenth-Century London: The Proprietary Medicine Business of Anthony Daffy. Medical History, Supplement No. 25. Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine. 216pp.

Hodgson, B. (2001). In the Arms of Morpheus. The Tragic History of Laudanum, Morphine, and Patent Medicines. Firefly Books, New York. 152pp.

Homan, P.G., Hudson, B. & Rowe, R.C. (2008). Popular Medicines. An Illustrated History. Pharmaceutical Press, London. 182pp.

Houghton, R.J. & Priestley, M.R. (2005). Historical Guide to Delftware and Victorian Ointment Pots. Published by Houghton & Priestley. 147pp.

Jones, O. R. & Smith, A. E. (1985). Glass of the British Military, ca. 1755 - 1820. Studies in Archaeology Architecture and History. Parks Canada. Ottawa.

MacKintosh, A. (2018). The Patent Medicines Industry in Georgian England: Constucting the market by the potency of print. Palgrave MacMillan. 320pp.

McKearin, H. & Wilson, K.M. (1978). American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry. Crown Publishers, Inc. New York. 779pp.

Porter, R. (2000). Quacks: Fakers and Charlatans in Medicine. Tempus Publishing, London. 320pp.

Pellatt, A. (1849). Curiosities of Glass Making: with Details of the Processes and Productions of Ancient and Modern Ornamental Glass Manufacture. London. 146pp.

Ross, C. (1982). The Development of the Glass Industry on the Rivers Tyne and Wear, 1700 - 1900. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis. University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.  https://theses.ncl.ac.uk, Downloaded 17th September 2017. 

Schulz, P.D., Allen, R., Lindsey, B. & Schultz, J.K. (Eds.) (2016). Baffle Marks and Pontil Scars: A Reader on Historic Bottle Identification. The Society for Historical Archaeology Special Publications Series No. 12. 554pp. SHA, USA.

Sommers, S.M. (2018). The Siblys of London. A Family on the Esoteric Fringes of Georgian England. Oxford University Press. 340pp.

Tanner, M.J. (2013). Great Britain Medicine Stamp Duty: A Philatelic History. The Revenue Society. 175pp.

Thompson, C.J.S. (1928). The Quacks of Old London. Reprinted 1993 by Barnes & Noble, London. 356pp.

Young, J.H. (1961). The Toadstool Millionaires. A Social History of Patent Medicines in America before Federal Regulation. Princeton University Press. 282pp.

Young, J.H. (1967). The Medical Messiahs: A Social History of Health Quackery in Twentieth-Century America. Princeton University Press. 460pp.

Young, J.H. (1992). American Health Quackery. Princeton University Press. 299pp.

Periodical & journal articles.

Aronson, J. (2009). Patent medicines and secret remedies, BMJ 2009; 339. [online]. Available from: www.bmj.com/content/339/bmj.b5415.full. Accessed 15th January 2020.

Ellison, M. (1975). The Tyne Glasshouses and Beilby and Bewick Workshop. Archaeologia Aeliana, Fifth Series, 3: 143-193.

Jones, O. R. (1981). Essence of Peppermint, a History of the Medicine and its Bottle. Historical Archaeology 15 (2): 1 - 57.

Jones, O. R. & Vegotsky, A. (2016). Turlington's Balsam of Life. Northeast Historical Archaeology 45: 1 - 61.

Leeson, P.T., M.S. King, & T. J. Fegley (2020) Regulating quack medicine. In: Public Choice, March 2020. Available at www.researchgate.net.

Newspapers & pamphlets.

Online resources.