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"How much is your health worth, Ladies and Gentlemen? It's priceless, isn't it? Well, my friends, one half-dollar is all it takes to put you in the pink. That's right, Ladies and Gents, for fifty pennies, Nature's True Remedy will succeed where doctors have failed. Only Nature can heal and I have Nature right here in this little bottle. My secret formula, from God's own laboratory, the Earth itself, will cure rheumatism, cancer, diabetes, baldness, bad breath, and curvature of the spine."
  
 
== Origins ==
 
== Origins ==

Revision as of 10:00, 9 October 2010

This is the opening paragraph defining Traveling Medicine Shows and introducing the dossier


"How much is your health worth, Ladies and Gentlemen? It's priceless, isn't it? Well, my friends, one half-dollar is all it takes to put you in the pink. That's right, Ladies and Gents, for fifty pennies, Nature's True Remedy will succeed where doctors have failed. Only Nature can heal and I have Nature right here in this little bottle. My secret formula, from God's own laboratory, the Earth itself, will cure rheumatism, cancer, diabetes, baldness, bad breath, and curvature of the spine."

Origins

Medieval Europe

Colonial America

Structure & Technique

The Art of the Sell

Ballyhoo: The Entertainment of the Show

Advice from a Showman

Notable Medicine Shows and Showmen

The Kickapoo Indian Show

The Oregon Medicine Company

Hamlin's Wizard Oil

Downfall of the Traveling Medicine Show

Legislation

New Technology

Tradition Today

Traveling Medicine Show Glossary

Bibliography

Author. Book Title. Publishing location: Publisher, Date.

Author. "Article Title". Journal, volume, issue, page.