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Wonder-workers and styptics 16 Jun 2013 | 05:03 pm
When your Magic Chicken is suffering from cholera, there’s no need to panic. This bottle for the Magic Chicken Cholera Cure is one of around 195 medicine bottles in the collection of Michael Till, a r...
Poison. To be applied night and morning. 13 Apr 2013 | 01:06 am
I have some wonderful pictures to share with you today thanks to collector Rex Barber from Perth, Western Australia, who owns several hundred 18th – 20th century proprietary remedy lids. Rex has exhib...
‘Come for the skin book, stay for the history!’ An interview with Dr Lindsey Fitzharris 21 Mar 2013 | 01:43 pm
The image of the 18th-century anatomist is a shady one, redolent of midnight forays into graveyards and dissection in front of a rabble of students. The cadavers in these scenes are anonymous and devo...
A barbarous, insanitary custom 14 Feb 2013 | 03:38 pm
CRUSADE AGAINST KISSING New York Lady Doctor says it is Barbarous. Great amusement has been caused in New York by a crusade against kissing started by the local branch of the Women’s Christian Tempera...
The most uncanny look 3 Feb 2013 | 12:13 am
IRRESISTIBLE EYES MAY BE HAD BY TRANSPLANTING THE HAIR. If your eyes are unattractive you may make them irresistible by transplanting the hair. Transplanted eyelashes and eyebrows are the latest thin...
Compliments of the Season 25 Dec 2012 | 03:19 am
The Quack Doctor wishes you a happy Christmas and the best of health in 2013!
‘Set the spirit alight’: Victorian festive science 19 Dec 2012 | 06:35 pm
Ah, Christmas! A time for peace, goodwill, and setting fire to chemicals. I was intrigued the other day by Rupert Cole’s article at the Guardian about the crossover between the cultures of science and...
Lazy salesmen and popular bachelors 5 Dec 2012 | 01:30 pm
The life of a travelling salesman in the early 20th century US might have involved stuffy railway carriages, soulless hotels and rejection by jaded druggists, but that doesn’t mean there were no light...
Don’t be gulled by misleading advertisements 5 Nov 2012 | 04:58 pm
This 20-page booklet from about 1927 appears at first glance to be an official publication intended to raise public awareness of the ‘preposterous claims concerning so-called “patent” medicines, which...
They’ll never notice 22 Oct 2012 | 04:09 pm
An unusual medical case takes a grisly turn in 1881: EXTRAORDINARY MEDICAL CASE A week ago, a man was brought to the hospital at Pesth, where he soon died, from the result of an accident. The usual ...
