James Harvey Young describes the development of patent medicines in the USA, 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 post-Act cases involving manufacturers and promoters of such products as Cuforhedake Brane-Fude, a "tuberculosis-curing" liniment and the dangerous weight-reducing pill Marmola. The book describes the brothers Charles Frederick and Peter Kaadt, who treated diabetic patients with a mixture of vinegar and saltpeter; Louisiana state senator Dudley J. LeBlanc, who put on fabulous medicine shows as late as the 1950s promoting Hadacol and his own political career, and Adlophus Hohensee, whose lectures on nutrition provide a classic example of the continuing appeal of food faddism.
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Fun, but very biased,
By Dalton C. Rocha (Fortaleza, CE, Brazil.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Medical Messiahs: A Social History of Health Quackery in Twentieth-Century America (Paperback)
I read many parts of this book.They are available, for free reading on internet.This book has many parts who are fun.The subject of this book are cases of american quacks.
This isn't a book for doctors, but for general public.Many chapters of this book can be transformed into comedies. Even having so many fun parts, this book is also biased. The worst quackeries of american medicine aren't, on this book. Things such as eugenics, racism,etc. don't have any space on this book.This bias calling "quackery" only absurds who had low quantity of followers and "forgeting" to call "quackery" frauds who fooled tens of millions of americans, is the main problem of this book.
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