{"id":6189,"date":"2013-12-12T07:30:54","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T07:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thequackdoctor.com\/?p=6189"},"modified":"2019-05-05T14:13:28","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T13:13:28","slug":"the-sparkle-of-perfect-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thequackdoctor.com\/index.php\/the-sparkle-of-perfect-health\/","title":{"rendered":"The sparkle of perfect health"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" title=\"ADvent Calendar Day 12\" alt=\"ADvent Calendar Day 12\" src=\"https:\/\/thequackdoctor.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/advent-calendar\/12.jpg\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">ADvent Calendar Day 12<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>The Favorite Prescription was just one part of a range marketed by Dr Ray Vaughn Pierce in newspapers, almanacs, pamphlets and on the side of barns across the late 19th-century US. After his death in 1914, his profitable business continued in the hands of his son, Dr Valentine Mott Pierce, and today&rsquo;s advertisement dates from that period. According to Charles Oleson&rsquo;s <i>Secret Nostrums and Systems of Medicine<\/i> (1906), the ingredients of the Favorite Prescription included digitalis, opium, savin and alcohol.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thequackdoctor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Dr-Pierces-Favorite-Prescription-c-1920s.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6190\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/thequackdoctor.com\/index.php\/the-sparkle-of-perfect-health\/dr-pierces-favorite-prescription-c-1920s\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/thequackdoctor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Dr-Pierces-Favorite-Prescription-c-1920s.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"556,841\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta='{\"aperture\":\"0\",\"credit\":\"\",\"camera\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"created_timestamp\":\"0\",\"copyright\":\"\",\"focal_length\":\"0\",\"iso\":\"0\",\"shutter_speed\":\"0\",\"title\":\"\",\"orientation\":\"0\"}' data-image-title=\"Dr Pierce&amp;#8217;s Favorite Prescription, c 1920s\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/thequackdoctor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Dr-Pierces-Favorite-Prescription-c-1920s.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6190\" alt=\"Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription, c 1920s\" src=\"https:\/\/thequackdoctor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Dr-Pierces-Favorite-Prescription-c-1920s.jpg\" width=\"556\" height=\"841\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thequackdoctor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Dr-Pierces-Favorite-Prescription-c-1920s.jpg 556w, https:\/\/thequackdoctor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Dr-Pierces-Favorite-Prescription-c-1920s-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/thequackdoctor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Dr-Pierces-Favorite-Prescription-c-1920s-278x420.jpg 278w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 556px) 100vw, 556px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Image from <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/safetyfirstbydrv00pier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Safety First, Dr V M Pierce<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ADvent Calendar Day 12 The Favorite Prescription was just one part of a range marketed by Dr Ray Vaughn Pierce in newspapers, almanacs, pamphlets and on the side of barns across the late 19th-century US. After his death in 1914, his profitable business continued in the hands of his son, Dr Valentine Mott Pierce, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[500],"tags":[273,66,4,355,16,126,354,209],"class_list":["post-6189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-patentmeds","tag-1920s-advertising","tag-20th-century","tag-books-pamphlets","tag-gender","tag-general-health-panaceas","tag-opium","tag-relationships","tag-usa","eq-blocks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thequackdoctor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Dr-Pierces-Favorite-Prescription-c-1920s.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pKwhj-1BP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thequackdoctor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thequackdoctor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thequackdoctor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thequackdoctor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thequackdoctor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6189"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thequackdoctor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7332,"href":"https:\/\/thequackdoctor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6189\/revisions\/7332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thequackdoctor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thequackdoctor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thequackdoctor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thequackdoctor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}