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A gang of fraudsters in 1890s Milwaukee used stereotypes of Far Eastern mystique to promote their own brand of Chinese medicine.
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The Rhycol Method was a treatment for catarrh in early 20th-century London.
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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.
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Hull chemist Walter Tom Owbridge made his fortune from a sweet-tasting Lung Tonic for coughs.
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Dr Clayton E Wheeler claimed to cure a host of conditions by injecting mashed-up goat gonads into patients' abdomens.
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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.