The government returned to patent medicine taxation during the Spanish American War (1898-1902), using a distinctive “battleship” stamp, as seen on the box of Warner’s Safe Asthma Cure. The second ...

The Smithsonian Institution began to collect objects related to health and medicine in 1881. It first obtained examples of patent medicines in 1930, acquiring packages of Haarlem Oil (or Dutch Drops), ...

Dr Agrawal has dedicated over 35 years to pharmaceutical innovation, holding an impressive portfolio of 42 patents. Many of his patented formulations ... a crucial role in determining how an ...

Patent-medicine advertisements were unavoidable; by the 1870s, 25 percent of all advertising was for patent medicines. After the Pure Food and Drug Act was passed in 1906, the newly created Food ...