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...throats, quinsy, croup, felons, ringworms, burns, scalds, shingles, erysipelas, salt rheum, piles, inflammation of the eyes and bowels, bruises, fresh cut wounds, bilious cholic, scrofulous and milk-leg sores, inflammatory rheumatism and gout." Such was the gilded age of the patent medicine in America, as told by Historian Gerald Carson in One for a Man, Two for a Horse, published last week (Doubleday...
Snake Slaughter. Though nostrums and quack cures have always been around, they got their big boost in the U.S., says Carson, from the Civil War. The men under arms learned to seek relief in an assortment of pain-killing potions, most of which contained opiates, alcohol or both. Such strong ingredients could kill pain, and that touch of veracity built credibility for a thousand other claims...
...later laws largely curbed the worst abuses of the snake-oil salesmen, but the "desire to take medicine" that Osier noted still dies hard. The biggest medicine-show extravaganza of all, says Author Carson, was staged in 1950 with Dixieland bands and Hollywood stars to promote a $1.25-a-bottle tonic that pulled in millions for a spellbinding Louisiana legislator named Dudley J. LeBlanc. The potion was called Hadacol, and it contained 12% alcohol. The Hadacol empire wound up in a tangle of bankruptcy proceedings...
...Disciples of Christ, which would make a denomination of some 4,000,000 members in 14,000 congregations. Back at once came a favorable reply suggesting that merger conferences begin in September. The delegates also voted to "respond affirmatively" to the proposal of Presbyterian Stated Clerk Eugene Carson Blake for a merger of Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Methodists and the United Church of Christ (TIME cover, May 26). Said pleased President Herbster: "We promised in the beginning to be not only a united church but a uniting church...
Appraising the chances of the plan of church unity proposed by Stated Clerk Eugene Carson Blake of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. and approved by the denomination's General Assembly last month (TIME Cover, May 26), Dr. Van Dusen criticized Episcopal High Churchman John Heuss, rector of Manhattan's old and opulent Trinity Church. The Blake proposal, said Dr. Heuss, "too easily brushes aside the formidable problems involved," notably the need for approval by the decennial Lambeth Conference. But, said Van Dusen, the Lambeth Conference has specifically approved the plan on which the Blake proposal...