. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. CJ each Bottle. To be Soli ouly b^ Jamti Wallait-, in AV»-Jork Reprinted 1/ J Fitfr /--^r, ia Sn^Ytrt, - ~ ~'*-. Figui-e 5.âPamphlet, Dated 1731, on Behalf of Bateman's Pectoral Drops. It was published by John Peter Zenger in New York. Original preserved in the New York Academy of Medicine Library. {Smithsonian photo 44286-Z).) approved of for the Cholick, and all Manners of Pains in the Bowels, , Fevers, Small-Po.\, Measles, Rheumatism, Coughs, Colds, and Restless- ness in Men, Women, and Children; and particularly for several Ailme
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. CJ each Bottle. To be Soli ouly b^ Jamti Wallait-, in AV»-Jork Reprinted 1/ J Fitfr /--^r, ia Sn^Ytrt, - ~ ~'*-. Figui-e 5.âPamphlet, Dated 1731, on Behalf of Bateman's Pectoral Drops. It was published by John Peter Zenger in New York. Original preserved in the New York Academy of Medicine Library. {Smithsonian photo 44286-Z).) approved of for the Cholick, and all Manners of Pains in the Bowels, , Fevers, Small-Po.\, Measles, Rheumatism, Coughs, Colds, and Restless- ness in Men, Women, and Children; and particularly for several Ailments incident to Child-bearing Women, and Relief of youna; Children in breeding their ; Emlen's venturesomeness may have lain in the fact that he was not onlv a retailer, but also an agent for the British manufacturer, for he cited the names of those who sold Godfrey's Cordial in nearby towns. Even at that, this appeal, consisting merely of a list of illnesses, lacked the of contemporary English nostrum advertising. In the whole span of the Boston Neivs-Lelter, beginning in 1704, it was not until 1763 that a bookstore pulled out the stops with half a column of lively prose in behalf of Dr. Hill's four un- patented ; It seems a safe as- sumption that not only the medicines but the verbiage were imported from London, where Dr. Hill had been at work endeavor- ing to restore a Greek secret which "con- \'erts a Glass of Water into the Nature and Quality of Asses Milk, with the Balsamick .Addition. . ." The infrequency of extended fanciful promotion in behalf of the old English nostrums in American newspaper adver- tising may have been compensated for to some degree in broadside and pamphlet. .â \ critic of the medical scene in New York in the early 1750's asserted that physicians used patent medicines which they learned al)out from "London quack ; This doctor complained, these were often their only reading matter.''&q
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