Professor, Dept. of Molecular Pathobiology New York University College of Dentistry.
J Hist Dent. 2020 Winter;68(3):157-162.
Quackery in medicine is as old as medicine. In times of crisis desperate patients believe in extraordinary claims. In the annals of pain killer quack medicine, elixirs, nostrums and liniments hold a preeminent position. The College of Dentistry at NYU received a collection of 237 bottles of nostrums and liniments dating from approximately 1850 through 1940. In this paper we inaugurate a series of articles featuring "Elixirs of the Past". We start this series with four samples, , four of many teething syrups that contained narcotics and were linked to infant death at the end of the 19th century. In 1906 Congress introduced to stop unsubstantiated claims. Companies were fined in court cases and finally compelled to remove narcotics and stop making unsubstantiated claims. Unmasking past claims hopefully stops quacks of today. Nevertheless, far more unfounded and extraordinary claims are being made today, using social media, perhaps more brazenly than one hundred years ago.
医学上的庸医和医学一样古老。在危机时期，绝望的患者会相信那些非凡的说法。在止痛药庸医、万灵药、成药和搽剂的编年史中，它们占据着卓越的地位。纽约大学牙科学院收到了约 1850 年至 1940 年期间的 237 瓶成药和搽剂。在本文中，我们推出了一系列以“过去的万灵药”为特色的文章。我们从四种样品开始，这四种是许多含有麻醉剂的出牙糖浆中的四种，这些糖浆在 19 世纪末与婴儿死亡有关。1906 年，国会推出了 来阻止未经证实的说法。公司在法庭案件中被罚款，最终被迫去除麻醉剂并停止做出未经证实的说法。揭露过去的说法希望能阻止今天的庸医。然而，今天有更多未经证实和更离奇的说法，利用社交媒体，也许比一百年前更肆无忌惮。
