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The Patent Medicines Industry in Late Georgian England: A Respectable Alternative to both Regular Medicine and Irregular Practice (2016)

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Patent medicines in late Georgian England have been misunderstood. Rather than just being visible constituents of irregular practice, they were a separate, substantial, industry providing a wide range of popular products. Most of the prominent medicine owners were either reputable tradesmen who did not practise medicine, or medical professionals; they operated from fixed premises for substantial periods of time, and they employed practices specific to the industry. A minority of nationally-available medicines were indeed owned and distributed by irregulars who were regarded as quacks by contemporaries, yet even these participants attempted to follow regular medicine. Wholesaling was initially led by London booksellers, but later moved to medicine specialists and chemists. The patent medicines industry was a separate entity, different from regular medicine and from irregular practice though linked to both of them, and restoring it to its rightful place changes our picture of late Georgian health care.

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Review Jonathan Simon (2020) Review of "The Patent Medicines Industry in Late Georgian England: A Respectable Alternative to both Regular Medicine and Irregular Practice". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 425-427). unapi

Review Claire L. Jones (2019) Review of "The Patent Medicines Industry in Late Georgian England: A Respectable Alternative to both Regular Medicine and Irregular Practice". Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology (pp. 230-233). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Gabriel, Joseph M.
Henk Vermande
Wilkinson, Miles
Helm, David P
Bennett Harvey Holman
Mackintosh, Alan
Concepts
Pharmacy
Pharmaceutical industry
Medicine
Medicine and society
Professions and professionalization
Physicians; doctors
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
17th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
Places
England
United States
Great Britain
Scotland
Netherlands
China
Institutions
Imperial Chemical Industries
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