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The Toadstool Millionaires. A Social History of Patent Medicines in America before Federal Regulation.
Princeton, Princeton U.P., (1974). xii, 282 pp. 8vo (13,5 X 21,5 cm.). Paperback (slightly soiled). With 16 plates..
"Mr. Young presents us with an account, at once scholarly and entertaining, of the rise of the patent medicine trade from its beginnings in colonial America until the passage of the first Federal Food and Drug law, and places it in proper historical perspective. Medical frauds are treated not merely as amusing follies of the past but as significant phenomena of importance today" (John B. Blake).--(Some pages have pencil underlinings).
American Health Quackery. Collected essays.
Princeton, Princeton U.P. (1992). xii, 299, [i] pp. 8vo. (16,5 x 24 cm.). Original cloth with dust-jacket. With numerous illustrations.
Young, the foremost expert on the history of medical frauds, find quackery in the 1990s to be more extensive and insidious than in the earlier and allegedly more naive areas. "A masterful case history of the complexity of achieving early social welfare legislation..."(Glenn Sonnedecker). Finely printed from the Linotron Galliard type on acid-free paper. Nice copy with author's autograph dedication.
