Snake Oil Salesmen: When America's Fastest-Growing Profession Collapsed | Case File #065 copertina

Snake Oil Salesmen: When America's Fastest-Growing Profession Collapsed | Case File #065

Snake Oil Salesmen: When America's Fastest-Growing Profession Collapsed | Case File #065

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CASE FILE #065 — The complete disappearance of commercial patent medicine salesmen—the traveling 'medicine show' performers and door-to-door vendors who dominated rural and urban America from 1870–1920, hawking tonics, elixirs, and miracle cures before the FDA's 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act systematically dismantled their industry, their livelihoods, and an entire economic ecosystem of small-town entertainment and folk commerce. From 1870 to 1920, traveling medicine show performers and door-to-door vendors dominated American commerce, hawking tonics and miracle cures that promised everything and delivered nothing. The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 dismantled this entire industry overnight, eliminating not just fraudulent products but livelihoods, entertainment traditions, and an entire economic ecosystem. This is the story of how one federal law erased a uniquely American subculture fro
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