Author: [Patent Medicine, Quackery, Racist Advertising] No author Given
Title: Brandreth's Pills : Purely Vegetable, Absolutely Harmless, Always Beneficial (Caption Title)
Description: New York, Porous Plaster Co. Wraps. Porous Plaster Co. presumed publisher. New York: ca 1895. Pamphlet. 20 pp. Color illustrations throughout. A promotional booklet touting Brandreth's Pills, Allcock's Porous Plasters and Salva-cea as medicinals good for treating a host of ailments. Created by Benjamin Brandreth, who used mass marketing to successfully promote what was, even by the 1850s, considered to be quackery. The booklet offers a variety of brainteasers and in two instances uses racist caricatures/anecdotes of Africans. Solutions to the puzzles were to be sent for. GOOD condition. Minor toning and wrinkling. Some creasing to the corners. Good .

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