Dental Students - NYU College of Dentistry.
Department of Molecular Pathobiology NYU College of Dentistry.
J Hist Dent. 2021 Summer/Fall;69(2):138-145.
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 special position. The College of Dentistry at NYU received a collection of 234 bottles of quack medicine dating from approximately 1850 through 1940. In this paper, the THIRD in a series of articles featuring "Elixirs of the Past", we focus on five particularly notable samples claiming to have "electric" properties: and Needless to say, none of these contained electricity or even electrolytes for that matter. In 1906, Congress enacted to prohibit exaggerated or unsubstantiated claims in the marketing and labeling of household products and to control the use of potentially harmful ingredients. The modern-day use of internet advertisements to make unsupported claims is in some ways even more brazen than the advertisements from a century ago.
医学中的庸医和医学一样古老。在危机时期，绝望的患者会相信非凡的说法。在止痛药庸医、万灵药、秘方和擦剂的史册中，它们占据着特殊的地位。纽约大学牙科学院收到了大约 1850 年至 1940 年期间的 234 瓶庸医药物的收藏。在这篇文章中，这是“过去的万灵药”系列文章中的第三篇，我们重点介绍了五个特别值得注意的声称具有“电气”特性的样本： 和 不用说，这些都不含有电，甚至没有电解质。1906 年，国会颁布了 ，以禁止在家庭产品的营销和标签中夸大或未经证实的声明，并控制潜在有害成分的使用。如今，互联网广告中使用的未经证实的声明在某些方面比一个世纪前的广告更加肆无忌惮。
