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  1. The Acme Worm Bouncer - The Quack Doctor

    The Worm Bouncer was an animal feed supplement comprising charcoal, sulphur, iron oxide, iron sulphate, salt, sodium sulphate …

  2. parasites | The Quack Doctor

    ADvent Calendar Day 19 This wonderful product name conjures up an image of Wile E Coyote speeding along a dirt road on a go …

  3. 1920s advertising - The Quack Doctor

    ADvent Calendar Day 19 This wonderful product name conjures up an image of Wile E Coyote speeding along a dirt road on a go …

  4. Girl vomited 87-inch worm - or did she? | The Quack Doctor

    Sep 30, 2010 · The National Archives' Surgeons at Sea project has just been launched. Newspapers reported on a case of a girl who …

  5. Hood's Sarsaparilla - The Quack Doctor

    Feb 27, 2009 · Hood’s Sarsaparilla was big business in the late 19th and early 20th centuries – you can get an idea how big from this …

  6. Dr Walter’s Medicated Rubber Garments - The Quack Doctor

    My Scottish grandma could be rather forthright at times and was wont to sum up the appearance of passers-by with the succinct …

  7. The Worm-Doctor of Shoreditch - The Quack Doctor

    John Gardner kept two museums supposedly full of the horrible intestinal parasites expelled by his patients - but they weren't all they …

  8. 20th century | The Quack Doctor

    ADvent Calendar Day 19 This wonderful product name conjures up an image of Wile E Coyote speeding along a dirt road on a go …

  9. Baron Schwanberg's Liquid Shell - The Quack Doctor

    By the KING'S Royal Letters Patent, SCHWANBERG's LIQUID SHELL, DAILY confirmed, by Experience, not only to be a sure …

  10. Tuna – a vegetable compound - The Quack Doctor

    The remedy was promoted as ‘ a strictly vegetable compound’, and its trademark suggests that the vegetable in question was a …