Table of Contents

Foreword by Heinrich R. Falk

1. Origins and Influences

2. Colonial and Pioneer Medicine Set the Stage for the Patent-Medicine Industry

3. Patent Medicines: Good for What Ails You

4. Museums, Circuses, and the Wild, Wild West

5. Blackface and Slapstick

6. That Old-Time Religion

7. Street Corners and Big Tents

8. Medicine—Show Life and Tricks of the Trade

9. Yahoo, Hadacol!

10. The Curtain Comes Down

Appendix I. All Run Down

Appendix II. Heart Failure

Appendix III. Temperance Songs

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index of Terms