Green, had started the patent medicine business by selling ... The cures were heavily advertised during the 1880s and were very popular. Warner marketed several "safe" cures such as diabetic ...

Consider, too, the Health Jolting Chair of the 1880s. It resembled a garden-variety ... [sic] The golden age of patent medicines ended in the early 1900s, notes the FDA web site, when muckraking ...

Beginning in the 1880s, a small number of American drug manufacturers began to argue for the need to patent their products. They made what today are familiar arguments, suggesting that patents ...

When we think of patents, we think of genius inventors with brilliant new ideas to make our lives better: Alexander Graham Bell’s 1876 patent for the telephone, say, or Thomas Edison’s 1880 ...

he was intrigued by medical reports in the early 1880s that cocaine might be a cure for morphinism,” Markel writes. Like many pharmacists of the period, Pemberton also made patent medicines, and ...

A vintage ad for patent medicines, which usually didn't list their ... had regulations on the sale of narcotics beginning in the 1880s, Herzberg notes that “laws were not part of the criminal ...

The patent medicines sold in days gone by may, contrary to the name, not have had real government patents. But that didn't stop their makers from claiming the concoctions could cure ailments ...