Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1909 — English Patent Medicines. [ARTICLE]

English Patent Medicines.

At the present time in Great Britain there are no less than 40,000 makers or venders of patent medicines, and these patent medicines are computed to Supply a revenue of £231,000 to the State. The patent medicine dealer reaps his harvest from so-called incurable diseases. Consumption cures, cancer cures, epilepsy cures, paralysis cures, make up the large majority of patent medicines.