Access the full text.
Sign up today, get DeepDyve free for 14 days.
Loading next page...
/lp/springer-journals/the-patent-medicines-industry-in-georgian-england-constructing-the-NikkiGU5NC
References (16)
-
Linda Pollock (1993)
With Faith and Physic: The Life of a Tudor Gentlewoman - Lady Grace Mildmay, 1552-1620 -
L. Cody (2010)
"No Cure, No Money," or the Invisible Hand of Quackery: The Language of Commerce, Credit, and Cash in Eighteenth-Century British Medical AdvertisementsStudies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, 28
-
W. Walker (2009)
Memoirs of the Distinguished Men of Science of Great Britain Living in the Years 1807-8 -
M. Keblusek (2003)
The business of newsScandinavian Journal of History, 28
-
R. Porter (1982)
English Society in the Eighteenth Century -
Josiah Slugg (2008)
Reminiscences of Manchester Fifty Years Ago -
William Zachs (1999)
The First John Murray and the Late Eighteenth-Century London Book Trade: With a Checklist of His Publications -
J. White (2013)
A Great and Monstrous Thing: London in the Eighteenth Century -
A. Mackintosh (2016)
Authority and ownership: the growth and wilting of medicine patenting in Georgian EnglandThe British Journal for the History of Science, 49
-
M. Nicolson, Thomas Dover (1968)
WARD'S "PILL AND DROP" AND MEN OF LETTERSJournal of the History of Ideas, 29
-
David Haycock, P. Wallis (2005)
Quackery and commerce in seventeenth-century London: the proprietary medicine business of Anthony Daffy.Medical History. Supplement
-
C. Welsh (2018)
A bookseller of the last century -
W. Hunter (1968)
William Hill and the Ormskirk MedicineMedical History, 12
-
D. Gerhold (2014)
The Development of Stage Coaching and the Impact of Turnpike Roads, 1653–1840Wiley-Blackwell: Economic History Review
-
Thomas. Turner, D. Vaisey (1984)
The diary of Thomas Turner, 1754-1765 -
F. O'Gorman (1997)
The Long Eighteenth Century
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright
- © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
- ISBN
- 978-3-319-69777-2
- Pages
- 73 –118
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-69778-9_3
- Publisher site
- See Chapter on Publisher Site
Abstract
[This chapter describes the owners and their products, and it puts forward two main points. One is that patent medicines were produced and traded as an industry which was organised, respectable, stable and profitable, with its own business practices. The other is that the ownership of these medicines was mostly distinct from irregular medicine, including quackery. The industry blossomed in the middle of the eighteenth century, and the owners can be divided into six groups: market leaders, other tradesmen and tradeswomen, medical professionals, elite owners, irregulars and local owners. Some biographical and commercial details are provided for over twenty owners. Numerical analysis reveals that the majority of the owners of nationally advertised medicines were market leaders, tradesmen or medical professionals, not irregular practitioners (‘quacks’).]
Published: Dec 5, 2017
Keywords: Irregular Practitioners; Patent Medicine Industry; Elite Ownership; Medicine Business; Spilsbury