Duke University History of Medicine Collections

During patent medicine's heyday, the 1870s to the 1930s, remedies such as Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, Scott's Emulsion, Ramon's Santonine Worm Syrup, Hooper's Female Pills, Dr. Cumming's Vegetine, and Brant's Indian Purifying Extract, were a part of the average American household medicine cabinet. Remedies such as these promised cures for everything ranging from headaches to cancer.

A selection of these popular medicine containers and advertising materials are now on display through September 2009.

Duke/UNC Speaker Series

Join us at UNC Health Sciences Library on November 10th at 6:00 pm for a presentation by Michael McVaugh, PhD, UNC Professor Emeritus of History, on "Arabic into Latin (Or, Why Medical Schools Got Started)."

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