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The True Scandal of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
The Golden Age of Patent Medicines
Quackery began at least three and a half thousand years ago. But its golden age may have been the 19th and early 20th centuries. Demand for patent medicines grew 20 times faster than economy as a whole. So why did people buy them? Sometimes, they made people feel better. People bought them because they didn't trust doctors.
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