Cures and Quackery: The Rise of Patent Medicines

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"Cures and Quackery: The Rise of Patent Medicines"
Denis Goulet, Université de Sherbrooke

How did Canadians care for their health in the latter half of the 19th century? In those days, medical science was making great strides in diagnostic techniques and disease classification. But curative medicine was evolving more slowly and remained limited in scope. Quacks and opportunistic entrepreneurs capitalized on this situation, flooding the market with a host of low-cost "miracle" cures.

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