Comments on: The tragic story of Ching’s Worm Lozenges

By: Caro

Caro — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 12:12:00 +0000

That’s fascinating – I’d love to hear more about your family history. I don’t have any further info on Ching as I just looked into this one episode, which happened after his death, but if you’d like to keep in touch about him, feel free to email me via the contact page.
Best wishes,
Caroline

By: RTHWard

RTHWard — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:58:14 +0000

Fantastic research and info, unfortunately he was my great x 4 grandfather, do you have any more info on him?
He died in 1800 and is buried at Bunhill Fields in London, his wife, Rebecca, carried on the business and I think she supposedly “refined” his lozenge, their Daughter, Lucy, married a Stanley Howard who was twice her age and already had six children
(she was coerced by her mother, I have her diaries) he was also a “druggist”
best wishes RW

By: Early Modern Notes » History Carnival 86

Early Modern Notes » History Carnival 86 — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 20:43:40 +0000

[...] Caroline Rance at The Quack Doctor has another story of a quack’s misleading claims, with fatal consequences: The Tragic Story of Ching’s Worm Lozenges. [...]

By: LillaBrunaElk

LillaBrunaElk — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:41:34 +0000

You are right – not an “ew!” post but rather an incredibly sad one. I love the small insights into people’s lives even though they are sometimes heartbreakingly tragic.

By: Lidian

Lidian — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:23:08 +0000

You’d think with a name like
Worm Lozenges that people wouldn’t have wanted to take them! It would put me off, certainly.

Fascinating stuff – many thanks for a great read, as usual.

By: SarahSiddons

SarahSiddons — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:14:00 +0000

RT @quackwriter: Blog post – The tragic story of Ching’s Worm Lozenges: http://thequackdoctor.com/index.php/the-... #history

By: Caro

Caro — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:07:46 +0000

Wow, really interesting figures – thanks for adding those.

By: JDM

JDM — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:58:50 +0000

Interesting, lucid post.

When you get into my favourite period (circa 1908) the numbers break down like this:

IR income from quack medicine stamp duty: £333,141 19s 2d

Number of stamped articles sold: 41,757,575!

By: quackwriter

quackwriter — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:32:36 +0000

Blog post – The tragic story of Ching’s Worm Lozenges: http://thequackdoctor.com/index.php/the-... #history

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