Barnaby Grimes, a punctual lad who runs errands around the city, seeks out mysteries to solve, is attacked one night by a huge dog, and gets caught up in a world of corrupt doctors, strange potions, and expensive furs.
Lydia, an Irish American shopgirl marries Henry Wickett, a shy medical student; however, soon after their wedding, Henry quits school to create a mail-order patent medicine and Lydia finds herself working in an experimental ward during the influenza epidemic.
Lydia, an Irish American shopgirl marries Henry Wickett, a shy medical student; however, soon after their wedding, Henry quits school to create a mail-order patent medicine and Lydia finds herself working in an experimental ward during the influenza epidemic.
the tragic history of laudanum, morphine, and patent medicines
Hodgson, Barbara
2001
Traces the history of laudanum, focusing on how the drug was touted as a miracle drug during the nineteenth century, causing writers, artists, and everyday citizens to become addicted to it.
