Criminalia

260 Episodes

1. Angelo Mariani's Cocaïne Wine : Vin Tonique Mariani à la Coca de Pérou

   Published: 7/16/2024
2. Harry Lewis Kramer: The Ad Man Who Marketed Medicine As Candy

   Published: 7/9/2024
3. The Shakers: America's Early Pharmacists

   Published: 7/2/2024
4. Who Really Made the Real ‘Daffy’s Elixir’ and What Was Really In It?

   Published: 6/25/2024
5. What Happened When – and After -- Dr. S. Andral Kilmer Founded His Laboratory and Remedy Company

   Published: 6/18/2024
6. Herbert E. Bucklen, Patent Medicine and 'Axle Grease Salesman'

   Published: 6/11/2024
7. Patent Medicine Evolution: No Beer? ‘Let Them Drink Sarsaparilla’

   Published: 6/4/2024
8. ‘EAT! EAT! EAT!’ Fat ‘Banished’ With Tapeworm Diet

   Published: 5/28/2024
9. ‘A Niagara of Curls’: The Story of the Seven Sutherland Sisters

   Published: 5/21/2024
10. Asthma and Smoking: When Cigarettes Were Medicine

    Published: 5/14/2024
11. That Time Perry Davis Trademarked ‘Pain Killer’ and Then Took It Global

    Published: 5/7/2024
12. How the Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company Had Nothing to Do With 'American Indians' or 'Medicine'

    Published: 4/30/2024
13. ‘Where Sick Folks Get Well’: Norman Baker Couldn’t Cure Cancer. Period.

    Published: 4/23/2024
14. Spoiler! Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People … May Have Worked

    Published: 4/16/2024
15. Radioactive Quackery: 'Doctor' Bailey and His Jaw-Dissolving ‘Energy Drink’

    Published: 4/9/2024
16. How Perkins Tractors Taught Us the Placebo Effect

    Published: 4/2/2024
17. Madame Yale Made a Fortune as America’s 19th-century ‘Wellness Guru’

    Published: 3/26/2024
18. How ‘Rattlesnake King’ Clark Stanley Became King of Snake Oil Sales

    Published: 3/19/2024
19. Welcome to the Season Finale of Criminalia's 'BLACKMAILERS'

    Published: 3/12/2024
20. Welcome to a New Season of Criminalia: 'THE SNAKE OIL SALESMEN'

    Published: 3/12/2024