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Booklet, "Bethesda or Health Resorts," 1885

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Description

A booklet providing a critique of health resorts in Florida, South Carolina, Colorado, and other popular health resorts around the United States and compares their efficacy with that of Nichols' Bark and Iron, also called Nichols' Elixir Peruvian Bark and Protoxide of Iron.

Date

1885

Creator

Billings, Clapp & Company (Boston, Mass.)

Publisher

Billings, Clapp & Company (Boston, Mass.)

Format

Booklets

Coverage

Late 19th-Century Florida (1877-1900)

Topic

Health and Safety

Subjects

Advertising--Patent medicines
Advertising--Tonics (Medicinal preparations)
Billings, Clapp & Company (Boston, Mass.)
Health resorts
Leonard, William Henry, 1829-1891
Nichols, James Robertson, 1819-1888
Nonprescription Drugs
Nostrums
Patent medicines
Quackery
Quacks and quackery
Schwartz, Charles William, 1850-1938
Tonics (Medicinal preparations)
Welborn, George Walker, 1844-1905

Geographic Term

Atlantic City (N. J.)
Saint Johns River
Florida
Jacksonville
Duval County
Saint Augustine
Saint Johns County
Silver Springs
Silver Springs (Fla. : Spring)
Marion County
Green Cove Springs
Clay County
Palatka
Putnam County
Colorado
Denver (Colo.)
Colorado Springs (Colo.)
Las Vegas (Nev.)

General Note

Full title: "Bethesda: A Traveller's Criticism on Health Resorts, Their Scenary, Climatic Peculiarities, and Currative Influence."

Title

Booklet, "Bethesda or Health Resorts," 1885

Subject

Patent medicines

Tonics (Medicinal preparations)

Advertising--Patent medicines

Advertising--Tonics (Medicinal preparations)

Quackery

Nonprescription Drugs

Quacks and quackery

Health resorts

Nostrums

Description

Creator

Billings, Clapp & Company (Boston, Mass.)

Source

State Library of Florida, Florida Collection

Publisher

Billings, Clapp & Company (Boston, Mass.)

Date

1885

Format

booklets

Language

eng-US

Type

Text

Identifier

flc_613.122-b465_01

Coverage

Late 19th-Century Florida (1877-1900)

Geographic Term

Atlantic City (N. J.)

Saint Johns River (Fla.)

Florida

Jacksonville (Fla.)

Duval County (Fla.)

Saint Augustine (Fla.)

Saint Johns County (Fla.)

Silver Springs (Fla.)

Silver Springs (Fla. : Spring)

Marion County (Fla.)

Green Cove Springs (Fla.)

Clay County (Fla.)

Palatka (Fla.)

Putnam County (Fla.)

Colorado

Denver (Colo.)

Colorado Springs (Colo.)

Las Vegas (Nev.)

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topic

Health and Safety

Subject - Corporate

Billings, Clapp & Company (Boston, Mass.)

Subject - Person

Nichols, James Robertson, 1819-1888

Leonard, William Henry, 1829-1891

Welborn, George Walker, 1844-1905

Schwartz, Charles William, 1850-1938

General Note

Full title: "Bethesda: A Traveller's Criticism on Health Resorts, Their Scenary, Climatic Peculiarities, and Currative Influence."

Chicago Manual of Style

Billings, Clapp & Company (Boston, Mass.). Booklet, "Bethesda or Health Resorts," 1885. 1885. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. <https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/350827>, accessed 1 December 2024.

MLA

Billings, Clapp & Company (Boston, Mass.). Booklet, "Bethesda or Health Resorts," 1885. 1885. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.<https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/350827>

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