Good For What Ails You: Dayton's Golden Age of Patent Medicine

by Curt Dalton

Dayton was once a hotbed for patent medicine sellers and manufacturers. It was a time of Redfern's Indian Tonic and Hirsch's Ambition Tablets, of liniments and cure-alls, of pills and powders and the occasional health potion.Step inside this book and see the lure of the ads, almanacs, trade cards and testimonials that sold a city, as well as a nation, on the idea of do-it-yourself medication. Discover the story of a Dayton traveling medicine show,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1492894060
• ISBN13: 9781492894063
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 11.0"