  
“Medicine Peddler” The Peddlers of
herbs and medicines flourished in America
all through the nineteenth century. At first
the people living in farms and in the
country raised their own herbs and prepared
their simple remedies, but gradually as the
villages and towns grew into cities the
patent medicines began to come into favor
and the medicine peddlers toured the country
selling their “cures”.
Their medicine generally consisted of pills
bought in quantity lots and put up into
bottles. The vendor would label them with
his name and sell them for a certain illness
or as a cure for a variety of illnesses.
Another peddler would buy the same pills,
put his name on them and recommend them for
a different complaint.
From this early vendor of herbs and
medicines was developed the Medicine Show
where a medicine peddler would set up a
platform at the country fair or village
square and sell his wares in the manner of a
circus barker: dressed in a silk hat, gaudy
clothes, and diamond stickpin.
Item ADT 154 Price $195.00
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