# The Medical Messiahs, Vol. 1

By **James Harvey Young**

- ISBN-13: 9780691645315
- Series: [Princeton Legacy Library](https://mybookbandits.com/series/princeton-legacy-library)
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 522
- Published: 19 Apr 2016

## About this book

James Harvey Young describes the development of patent medicines in America from the enactment in 1906 of the Pure Food and Drugs Act through the mid-1960s. Many predicted that the Pure Food and Drugs Act would be the end of harmful nostrums, but Young describes in colorful detail post-Act cases involving manufacturers

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