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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