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Valentine’s Meat-Juice

Valentine's Meat-Juice, The Medical World May 1914

The Quack Doctor is not a hearts and flowers kind of person, so was interested to learn of a dark side to this product’s history.

Brought into production in Richmond, VA, in 1871, Valentine’s Meat-Juice became popular with orthodox physicians and was advertised in professional publications, including the British Medical Journal. Its inventor, Mann S. Valentine, told of its origins in his A Brief History of the Production of Valentine’s Meat...

Valentine's Meat-Juice

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Valentine's Meat-Juice, The Medical World May 1914

 

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Cover of the first instalment of Bleak House, March 1852

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Ali Ahmed's Treasures of the Desert

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Cover of the first instalment of Bleak House, March 1852

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Anti-Stiff – strengthens the muscles

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Anti-Stiff advert from The Chemist and Druggist, 7 June 1890

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Book Review: Shropshire Doctors & Quacks, by Richard Moore

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When doctors write about the history of medicine, there's a danger that the result will be 'look at me! I've just...

Happy Christmas from The Quack Doctor

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The Mormon Elder's Damiana Wafers – the most powerful invigorant ever produced

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The tracks of a spider whose legs had been dipped in ink

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