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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Young, James Harvey

Titel

THE OLD WIZZARD: Thomsonianism, a democratic system of patented medication

Ist Teil von

• The Toadstool Millionaires: A Social History of Patent Medicines in America before Federal Regulation, 2015, p.44-57

Ort / Verlag

Princeton: Princeton University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Of all the medical patents issued in the early decades of American independence, the patent with the greatest impact on society was granted to a New Hampshire farmer named Samuel Thomson. Influenced by the same forces that boomed the sale of packaged remedies, Thomson patented a system of medical treatment that made every man his own physician, a system destined to sweep the nation. The road to the patent office, however, was arduous, and Thomson’s own account of it grim. He was born on the frontier in 1769. His parents were poverty-stricken. His father was stern and severe. The boy’s