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The Mighty Healer: Thomas Holloway´s Victorian Patent Medicine Empire
Verity Holloway
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Description for The Mighty Healer: Thomas Holloway´s Victorian Patent Medicine Empire
paperback. Easily accessible to readers new to the Victorian era, and to the history of medicine Num Pages: 215 pages, 20 integrated illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; BGT; JKSN1; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 492.
Verity Holloway's nineteenth-century cousin Thomas Holloway's patent medicine empire was so ubiquitous, Charles Dickens commented that if you'd murdered someone with the name Holloway, you'd think their spirit had come back to torment you. Advertising as far away as the pyramids in Giza, it was said Holloway's Ointment could cure lesions on a wooden leg. Bottling leftover cooking grease in the kitchen of his parents' Cornish pub, Thomas's dubious cure-alls made him one of the richest self-made men in England. Promising to save respectable Victorian invalids 'FROM THE POINT OF DEATH' (his capitals), the self-proclaimed 'Professor' Holloway used his ... Read more
Verity Holloway's nineteenth-century cousin Thomas Holloway's patent medicine empire was so ubiquitous, Charles Dickens commented that if you'd murdered someone with the name Holloway, you'd think their spirit had come back to torment you. Advertising as far away as the pyramids in Giza, it was said Holloway's Ointment could cure lesions on a wooden leg. Bottling leftover cooking grease in the kitchen of his parents' Cornish pub, Thomas's dubious cure-alls made him one of the richest self-made men in England. Promising to save respectable Victorian invalids 'FROM THE POINT OF DEATH' (his capitals), the self-proclaimed 'Professor' Holloway used his ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Pen & Sword History
Condition
New
Number of Pages
215
Place of Publication
Barnsley, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781473855670
SKU
9781473855670
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About Verity Holloway
Verity Holloway was born in Gibraltar in 1986 to a naval family and spent much of her early life following her warrant officer father around the world. Her speculative fiction and poetry is inspired by all things medical, religious and historical. By the age of seventeen, she was already being recognised as a gifted poet. She published her first chapbook, ... Read more
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