As noted last week, during the patent medicine era many medicines attempted to secure a bigger share of the self-medication market by attaching a physician’s name (real or fictitious) to their often worthless (or worse) products. Here are some more examples of this practice:

Dr. Bayer’s Purgen

Dr. Boschee’s Syrup of Tea and Wild Cherry (alcohol, honey, chloroform)

Dr. Briggs’ Pepsin Syrup

Dr. Brown’s Chlorodyne (coughs, colds, asthma, bronchitis)

Dr. Bull’s Celebrated Pills (cough relief)

Dr. Burkhart’s Vegetable Compound (constipation, torpid liver)

Dr. Caldwell’s Senna Laxative

Dr. Chase’s K-L Liver Pills (headache, biliousness)

Dr. Clifton’s Brazolian Herbs (nutrients for daily consumption)

Dr. De Sanctia’s Rheumatic and Gout Pills

Dr. DeWitt’s Cough and Cold Syrup

Dr. Donnelly’s Tonic Bitters (18 percent grain alcohol)

Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets (chronic constipation, torpid liver)

Dr. Fenner’s Blood and Liver Remedy and Nerve Tonic

Dr. Flint’s Quaker Bitters (nervousness, catarrh of the head and stomach)

Dr. Fowler’s Strawberry and Peppermint Mixture (diarrhea)

Dr. Fuller’s Electro Spiral Magnetic Vegetable Vapor Cure (headache, catarrh)

Dr. Guertin’s Nerve Syrup

Dr. Hand’s Pleasant Physic (obstinate constipation relief without gripping)

Dr. Harter’s Liver Pills (purify blood, relief from costiveness)

Dr. Herrick’s Pills (sick headache, bad breath)

Dr. Hilton’s Specific No. 3 (cures colds, prevents pneumonia and grippe)

Dr. Hobson’s Laxative Santonin Worm Syrup

Dr. Hooker’s Cough and Croup Syrup

Dr. Hunt’s New Corn Cure

Dr. Jayne’s Sanative Pills for Liver Complaints

Dr. Johnson’s Digestol (functional stomach disorders)

Dr. Kay’s Lung Balm

Dr. Kilmer’s Prompt Parilla Liver Pills (flatulence, belching of wind)

Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption (“the only sure cure in the world”)

Dr. Lawrence’s Cough Balsam

Dr. Lee’s New London Bilious Pills

Dr. Lintz’s Flaxolyn Formula (laxative and diuretic)

Dr. Lister’s Listerine

Dr. Marvin’s Mandrake Pills (constipation, torpid liver)

Dr. McLane’s Celebrated Liver Pills and Tar Wine Lung Balm

(diseases of the throat and lungs)

Dr. Mead’s Family Regulating Remedy (depression, snake bite)

Dr. Miles’ Anti-Pain Pills

Dr. Osborn’s Golden Ointment (burns, scalds, bruises)

Dr. Peter’s Lozogo (flatulence, coated tongue. foul breath)

Dr. Porter’s Antiseptic Healing Oil (bunions, stings of insects, sunburns,

suitable for man and beast)

Dr. Reeder’s Little Liver Pills (constipation, sick headache)

Dr. Rennolds’ Celebrated Virginia Hepatic Pills (uses not identified on label)

Dr. Sawyer’s Ko-Ro-No Tablets (bad blood, yellowness of the face and eyes)

Dr. Schiffmann’s Asthmador