Book # 000334 Publisher Doubleday Place New Orleans Year 1976 Book Condition Very Good Jacket Condition Very Good Binding Pictorial Cover
Price: $23.00
Description First Edition. 233pp+illus. including coloured plates. Tiny library stamp on title page. A superbly illustrated history of the amazing American medicine shows at which all manner of "wonder drugs" were offered to a gullible public. The author catalogues the growth of such shows from the Wizard Oil routines with their high moral tones; the humbug Indian spectaculars put on by the Kickapool and Oregon Medicine companies; the implementation of the Pure Food and Drug Acts, right up to the Hadacol Caravans that showcased stars in the 1950s. Includes 16 pages of coloured advertising plates, Bibliography and Index.
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