Rugendorff E W
World J Urol. 1999 Jun;17(3):171-5. doi: 10.1007/s003450050127.
The present article addresses the nineteenth-century advertising of patent medicines in America, sold to "cure" diseases of the kidney and bladder, the "loss of manhood", and "debilitating conditions of the generative system." Most of the proprietary remedies made extravagant claims of effectiveness concerning a wide variety of ailments, and some claimed to cure every disease. Examples of promotional excesses demonstrate how the public was persuaded to buy a kaleidoscope of largely useless and occasionally harmful patent nostrums. The ephemera considered became a part of the history of medicine related to urology.
本文探讨了19世纪美国专利药品的广告宣传情况，这些药品被售卖用于“治疗”肾脏和膀胱疾病、“男性性功能丧失”以及“生殖系统虚弱状况”。大多数专利药品对各种疾病的疗效都做出了夸张的宣称，有些甚至声称能治愈所有疾病。促销过度的例子展示了公众是如何被说服购买一系列基本上无用且偶尔有害的专利药的。所讨论的这些转瞬即逝的事物成为了与泌尿学相关的医学史的一部分。
