Review: History Of The Comstock Patent Medicine Business And Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills

History Of The Comstock Patent Medicine Business And Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills by Robert B. Shaw

My rating: 3 of 5 stars



This Smithsonia annals of big-time, organized quackery details familial and legal battles of the nostrum firm. Plenty of label illustrations and pictures of the water-side Comstock factory and hotel dress up the narrative. The whole arc is covered from Indian medicine man lies (apparently the old Medicine Man was intimately familiar with flora of the Far East), mail scams that sound like todays Spanish Prison e-mail scams, and an empty warehouse of the 1950s where shuffling septuagenarians fill the last reminaing orders of quackery that laster nearly a century.



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