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The unsettled science of global warming and the politics of class warfare prove that Mr. Lindstrom's patent-medicine approach to replacing solid scientific reason with knee-jerk notions of easy money is too giddy to resist.

Brandwashing Our Politics and Economy 2011

The Listerine marketers refined the marketing techniques that were pioneered by the patent-medicine makers of the 19th century.

Dr. Larry Dossey: Creating Disease: Big Pharma and Disease Mongering 2010

And my sister-in-law has at least one interesting ancestor: Russian Jew, writer, patent-medicine manufacturer, and winemaker.

Making Light: Open thread 134 2010

He set high ethical standards and made advertising more respectable than the patent-medicine ads that had come before.

Present at the Birth of Modern Advertising 2010

The Listerine marketers refined the marketing techniques that were pioneered by the patent-medicine makers of the 19th century.

Dr. Larry Dossey: Creating Disease: Big Pharma and Disease Mongering 2010

Quack medicines, some consisting mostly of alcohol, or hideously dangerous drugs, mislabeled, or underlabeled, were brazenly peddled; the patent-medicine industry wielded enormous power over newspapers, which had grown dependent on their revenues from ads.

A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

Quack medicines, some consisting mostly of alcohol, or hideously dangerous drugs, mislabeled, or underlabeled, were brazenly peddled; the patent-medicine industry wielded enormous power over newspapers, which had grown dependent on their revenues from ads.

A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

Quack medicines, some consisting mostly of alcohol, or hideously dangerous drugs, mislabeled, or underlabeled, were brazenly peddled; the patent-medicine industry wielded enormous power over newspapers, which had grown dependent on their revenues from ads.

A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

Note that the FDA's article describes Dr. Wiley's adversaries as having been "in Congress and in the food and patent-medicine industries".

Diminished Capacity: FDA Downsized and Privatized; America is at Risk 2007

Wiley had many adversaries in Congress and in the food and patent-medicine industries, and in 1912 he left his government post.

Diminished Capacity: FDA Downsized and Privatized; America is at Risk 2007