Product Description: Contents: Preface. Acknowledgments. Part One: Early Days. Part Two: Heyday. Part Three: Themes. Part Four: Legislation. Part Five: Epilogue. Index.Originally published in 1961.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press...read more

Product Description: James Harvey Young describes the development of patent medicines in America from the enactment in 1906 of the Pure Food and Drugs Act through the mid-1960s. Many predicted that the Pure Food and Drugs Act would be the end of harmful nostrums, but Young describes in colorful detail post-Act cases involving manufacturers and promoters of such products as Cuforhedake Brane-Fude, B...read more

Essays discuss the American tradition of reliance on quack remedies and treatments, dental quackery, children's medications, nutritional fads, folk medicine, the laetrile case, quack AIDS treatments, and other topics

No markings. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust jacket shows fading. Dust Jacket comes in removable mylar cover. All edges are clean. Dust Jacket is Unclipped. Very clean, crisp, and tight copy. Includes index. Not Ex-Library. All books offered from DSB are stocked at our store in Fayetteville, AR. Save on shipping by ordering multiple titles. 211pp. Hardcover Fine Condition Size: 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" English Text