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  1. Dr Gun Wa’s Chinese Remedies

    (The Quack Doctor)

    A gang of fraudsters in 1890s Milwaukee used stereotypes of Far Eastern mystique to promote their own brand of Chinese medicine.

  2. The Rhycol Method

    (The Quack Doctor)

    The Rhycol Method was a treatment for catarrh in early 20th-century London.

  3. Dr James’s Fever Powder

    (The Quack Doctor)

    Dr Robert James (1703-1776) was an uncouth, hard-drinking, verbose buddy of Samuel Johnson – but amid the carousing and lexicography, he found time to create one of the most prominent patent medicines of Georgian England.

  4. Owbridge’s Lung Tonic

    (The Quack Doctor)

    Hull chemist Walter Tom Owbridge made his fortune from a sweet-tasting Lung Tonic for coughs.

  5. The goat gland wizard of California

    (The Quack Doctor)

    Dr Clayton E Wheeler claimed to cure a host of conditions by injecting mashed-up goat gonads into patients' abdomens.

  6. Dr Buckland’s Scotch Oats Essence

    (The Quack Doctor)

    The Scotch Oats Essence was wholesome-sounding American patent medicine - but its short reign of advertising prominence ended when analysis showed it to be a dangerous and cruel fraud.