. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. â --'â ' . ., ST â. Figure 6.âBoTiLKS of B,\tem.\n"s Pectoral Drops, igth century (left) and early 20lh century (right), from the Samuel Akcr, David and George Kass collection, Albany, New York. {Smithsonian photo ) composition to those patented or marketed as "new inventions" can in every case be found in such 17th- century pharmacopoeias as William Salmon's Pharma- copoeia Londinensis. Whatever similarities existed between the canons m regular pharmacy and the composition of patent med- icines, there was a decide
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. â --'â ' . ., ST â. Figure 6.âBoTiLKS of B,\tem.\n"s Pectoral Drops, igth century (left) and early 20lh century (right), from the Samuel Akcr, David and George Kass collection, Albany, New York. {Smithsonian photo ) composition to those patented or marketed as "new inventions" can in every case be found in such 17th- century pharmacopoeias as William Salmon's Pharma- copoeia Londinensis. Whatever similarities existed between the canons m regular pharmacy and the composition of patent med- icines, there was a decided difference in the methods of marketing. Although patent medicines were often prescription items, they did not have to be. The way they looked on a shelf made them so easily recog- nizable that even the most loutish illiterate could tell one from another. As the nostrimi proprietor did so much to pioneer in advertising psychologs', so he also PAPER 10: OLD ENGLISH PATENT MEDICINES IN AMERICA 167. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc. ]; for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt Print. Off.
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