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In this paper, the FOURTH in a series of articles featuring "Elixirs of the Past" we bring to light four more samples claiming to have magnetic properties: Dr. J.R. Miller's Magnetic Balm, Havens' Electromagnetic Liniment, Headman's Magnetic Liniments, and Magnetic Cream. It goes without saying that none of these had any magnetic properties. In 190...
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... made many patients feel vulnerable. As a result, patent medicine flourished in the US. Of particular interest in the late 19 th century was "magnetic medicine", a form of quackery that relied on the mysteriousness of magnets. 12 A singularly notorious figure was Dr. C.J. Thacher of Chicago. Generally regarded as the "King of Magnetic Quacks" (Fig. 4), he once boasted in an interview with the New York American that his proprietary Thacher Magnetic Shield could "cure any disease that afflicts the human race". 13,14 At the same time, magnetism found its way into liniments, ointments, and household items such as hairbrushes for treating baldness, braces and corsets for treating ...
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