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osteopathy,
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, 218–19; as outsider, 241; recruitment by, 227; school founded by, 224–25; spirituality of, 222, 229–30, 231; struggles with son, 225; and subluxation, 223
    Palmer Chiropractic School and Cure, 224–26
    Paracelsus, 149
    Paradis, Maria Theresia, 151–52
    Paré, Ambroise, 211
    Parsons, Mae, 224
    patenting: of patent medicines, 186; by Samuel Thomson, 37–38, 49–50
    patent medicine, 3, 183–207; advertising of, 184, 185,
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, 188, 191–94, 199, 201, 207; of Charles Came, 196–97; during Civil War, 189–90; in Colonial America, 184; critics of, 205; in early nineteenth century, 185–86; itinerant sellers of, 197; in late nineteenth century, 190; medical shows and lectures on, 195–96; in mid-nineteenth century, 189–90; and patenting, 186; of Lydia Pinkham,
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, 186–88, 191–93, 197–202; vs. regular medicine, 199–203; regulation of, 205–7; of Reinhardts, 193–94, 198–99, 203, 206; snake oil as, 183–84; success of, 203–5; women in, 191–92, 197–98
    â€œpathies,” 48
    Patterson, Mary.
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Eddy, Mary Baker
    Paxson, Minora, 224
    Peabody, Elizabeth, 133
    Peale, Ruben, 169
    Peck, David Jones, 20
    penicillin, 250
    Pennsylvania State Homeopathic Society, 137
    Pennsylvania State Medical Society, 201
    Perkins, Elisha, 38
    Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, 135
    Phrenological Cabinet, 66–67
    phrenology, 53–81; animal vs. human traits in, 56, 67; arrival in United States of, 60–61; and brain function, 78–80; coining of term, 58; of George Combe, 62–64; and criminals, 55–56, 57, 60, 63; criticism of, 75–77; decline of interest in, 78; educational applications of, 62–63, 68; of Fowlers, 64–68, 80–81; of Franz Joseph Gall, 54–59, 78–79; head casts in, 55–56, 67; head readings in, 53, 69; innate human faculties in, 56, 59, 64–65; itinerant practitioners of, 68–69; legacy of, 258–59; marriage based on, 53–54, 63, 71; moral values in, 58; and “natural vitality,” 62; outlier cases in, 57–58; phrases based on, 74; popularity and influence of, 60–61, 63–64, 77–78; and potential for change, 58–59, 60–61; practical advice based on, 70–71; of public figures, 71–72; and racial stereotyping, 67; of Johann Spurzheim, 58–62; support for, 61–62; and Emanuel Swedenborg, 56–57; Mark Twain’s account of, 4–6, 74–75; Walt Whitman and, 73–74; women in, 66; in writing, 72–73
    Physio-Medical College, 47
    Pinkerton, Allan, 72
    Pinkham, Daniel, 187, 188, 191
    Pinkham, Isaac, 187
    Pinkham, Lydia Estes,
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; advertising by, 191–93; advice by, 197–98; critics of, 199; early life of, 186–87; endorsement by regular doctors of, 200–201; family business of, 190–91, 206; first sales by, 187–88; home remedies of, 187, 202; ingredients used by, 188, 190; pamphlets by, 194; patents by, 188; women as customers of, 191–92
    Pinkham, Will, 188
    placebo effect, 263–65
    Poe, Edgar Allan, 73, 99–100
    Poyen de Saint Saveur, Charles, 161–64, 166, 168–69
    Practical Instruction in Animal Magnetism
(Deleuze), 165
    prepayment system of Samuel Thomson, 35–36, 38–39, 50
    prescription in hydropathy, 99
    preventative health care, 259
    Priessnitz, Vincent, 84–89, 106
    Primitive Physick
(Wesley), 10, 87, 230
    Principles of Psychology
(James), 69
    provings in homeopathy, 119–20
    psora, 124–25
    psychological aspects of mesmerism, 158–61, 168, 170–73
    psychological origin for disease, 170–73
    psychosomatic disorders, 170
    public health, 245–46
    Pure Food and Drug Act (1906), 205–6, 207
    purging, 7, 8, 31
    Puységur, Marquis de (Armand-Marie-Jacques de Chastenet), 157–59, 162, 168, 180
    quacks and quackery, 2–3, 15, 16–17; AMA and, 245; homeopathy as, 133, 140; manual manipulation