. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 4.—Patrick Anderson. M. fioin a box of Anderson's Scots Pills. From Wootton's Chronicles of pharmacy, London, 1910. {Smithsonianphoto 44286-C) to bring along, but no record to suljstantiate such an incident has been encountered. It would seem that the use of English packaged remedies in America was most infrequent before 1700. Samuel Lee, answering questions posed from England in 1690 about the status of medicine and pharmacy in Mas- sachusetts, mentions no patent ^ Neither does the 1698 account book of the Salem apothe
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 4.—Patrick Anderson. M. fioin a box of Anderson's Scots Pills. From Wootton's Chronicles of pharmacy, London, 1910. {Smithsonianphoto 44286-C) to bring along, but no record to suljstantiate such an incident has been encountered. It would seem that the use of English packaged remedies in America was most infrequent before 1700. Samuel Lee, answering questions posed from England in 1690 about the status of medicine and pharmacy in Mas- sachusetts, mentions no patent ^ Neither does the 1698 account book of the Salem apothecary, Bartholomew Brown.^^ In the Boston Xeivs-Letter for October 4, 1708, Nicholas Boone, at the Sign of the Bible, near the corner of School-House-Lane, advertised for sale: "D.\ffy"s Sahitis, very good, at four shillings and sixpence per half pint ;' This may well be the first printed reference in America to an English patent medicine, and it certainly is the first news- paper advertisement for a nostrum. Preceding the News-Letter in colonial .\merica, there had been only one paper, the Puhlick Occurrences Both Foreign 2' George L. Kittredge, "Letters to Samuel Lee and Samuel Sewall relating to New England and the Indians," Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Transactions, 1913, vol. 14, pp. 142-186. 2» Bartholomew Brown, Apothecary day book, Salem [1698]; manuscript original preserved in the Library of the Essex Institute, Sairm, Massachusetts. and i his journal had lasted but a single issue. Then its printer had returned to England, where he took up the career of a patent medicine promoter, vending "the only Antfelical Pills against all Vapours, Hysterick and Melancholly ; The Xeivs-Letter had begun with the issue of April 27, 1704, about 4 years before Boone's advertisement for Daffy's remedy made its appearance, but during that time, only one advertisement for anything at all in the medical field had app
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