Cover of Snake Oil, Hustlers and Hambones

Book 2004

Snake Oil, Hustlers and Hambones

2 readers

Publisher
McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Language
English
Published
2004
  • Healers
  • Quacks and quackery
  • Medicine shows
  • Patent medicines
  • History
  • Medicine, united states
  • Nonprescription Drugs
  • History, 19th Century

"Medical practices, commerce, and advertising are explored in relation to the history of the rise and eventural demise of the medicine show in America."--Preface.