Brandreth's Pills : purely vegetable, absolutely harmless, always beneficial (Caption Title)
by [Patent Medicine, Quackery, Racist Advertising] No author Given
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- good
- Condition
- Good
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Dover, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
New York: Porous Plaster Co. Wraps. Good. Porous Plaster Co., presumed publisher. New York: ca 1895. Pamphlet. 20 pp. Color illustrations throughout. A promotional booklet touting Brandreth's Pills, Allcock's Porous Plasters and Salva-cea as medicinals good for treating a host of ailments. Created by Benjamin Brandreth, who used mass marketing to successfully promote what was, even by the 1850s, considered to be quackery. The booklet offers a variety of brainteasers and in two instances uses racist caricatures/anecdotes of Africans. Solutions to the puzzles were to be sent for. GOOD condition. Minor toning and wrinkling. Some creasing to the corners.
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- Mare Booksellers (US)
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- Title
- Brandreth's Pills : purely vegetable, absolutely harmless, always beneficial (Caption Title)
- Author
- [Patent Medicine, Quackery, Racist Advertising] No author Given
- Format/Binding
- Wraps
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Porous Plaster Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
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- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana; Medicine;
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