Dental Students - NYU College of Dentistry.
Department of Molecular Pathobiology NYU College of Dentistry.
J Hist Dent. 2021 Winter;69(3):205-215.
Quackery in medicine is as old as medicine itself. In times of crisis, desperate patients often believe extraordinary claims. In the annals of pain-killer quack medicine, snake oil, elixirs, nostrums and Indian liniments hold a special position. NYU College of Dentistry (NYUCD) has a collection of 234 bottles of such medicines dating from the mid-1800s through 1940. This paper is the fifth in a series of articles featuring "Elixirs of the Past" in which we bring to light six more samples with claims to traditional Chinese or American Indian medicine using snake oil: . The six examples are just a few quack medications linked to fraud, overdose, addiction or death. In 1906, Congress enacted and reinforced it with of 1938, to stop unsubstantiated medicinal claims and control the use of addictive and dangerous substances. The modern-day use of social media to advertise quack medicine is in some ways even more brazen than selling patent medicine a century ago.
医学中的庸医和医学本身一样历史悠久。在危机时期，绝望的患者往往会相信那些夸大其词的说法。在止痛药庸医、蛇油、长生不老药、万灵药和印度搽剂的编年史中，它们占据着特殊的地位。纽约大学牙科学院（NYUCD）拥有 234 瓶此类药品的收藏，这些药品的历史可以追溯到 19 世纪中叶到 1940 年。本文是一系列以“过去的长生不老药”为主题的文章中的第五篇，我们将揭示另外六种声称具有中药或美国印第安人传统医学的样本，这些样本都使用了蛇油：[具体药品名称]。这六个例子只是与欺诈、过量用药、成瘾或死亡有关的几种庸医药物。1906 年，国会通过了《纯净食品和药品法》，并在 1938 年的《食品、药品和化妆品法》中进行了强化，以阻止未经证实的药品声明，并控制成瘾性和危险物质的使用。与一个世纪前销售专利药品相比，现代社会媒体广告庸医在某些方面更加肆无忌惮。
