LEADER 03146nam 2200469 450 001 9910792624603321 005 20230808201450.0 010 $a1-4738-5570-5 010 $a1-4738-5568-3 035 $a(CKB)3710000001044963 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4799744 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4799744 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11337868 035 $a(OCoLC)971493785 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001044963 100 $a20170216h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe mighty healer $eThomas Holloway's victorian patent medicine empire /$fVerity Holloway 210 1$aSouth Yorkshire, [England] :$cPen & Sword History,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (225 pages) $cillustrations 311 $a1-4738-5567-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $a"Verity Holloway's nineteenth-century cousin Thomas Holloway's patent medicine empire was so ubiquitous, Charles Dickens commented that if you'd murdered someone with the name Holloway, you'd think their spirit had come back to torment you. Advertising as far away as the pyramids in Giza, it was said Holloway's Ointment could cure lesions on a wooden leg. Bottling leftover cooking grease in the kitchen of his parents' Cornish pub, Thomas's dubious cure-alls made him one of the richest self-made men in England. Promising to save respectable Victorian invalids 'FROM THE POINT OF DEATH' (his capitals), the self-proclaimed 'Professor' Holloway used his millions to build the enormous Gothic Holloway College and Holloway Sanatorium for the insane. But Thomas was a man of contradictions. To his contemporaries, he was simultaneously 'the greatest benefactor to ever live' and no better than a general who led millions to their deaths. Aware of the uselessness of his own products, he believed the placebo effect was well worth the subterfuge and never ridiculed his customers. A ruthless businessman, he was deeply in love with his wife and cared for the education of young women. The Mighty Healer charts Thomas's rise and the realization of his worst fear - that rival company Beechams would one day take him over - plus the very Victorian squabbling over his fortune by his respectable and not-so-respectable relations. It draws on primary and secondary sources to ground Thomas's life in the social issues of the day, including women's education, Victorian mental healthcare, contemporary accounts of debtors' gaols, and of course the patent medicine trade of the mid-Victorian period; the people who took the medicine, and those who fiercely opposed it."--$cPublisher description. 606 $aPhilanthropists$zEngland$vBiography 607 $aUnited Kingdom 607 $aEngland$2fast 607 $aGreat Britain$2fast 615 0$aPhilanthropists 676 $a361.74 700 $aHolloway$b Verity$01546053 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792624603321 996 $aThe mighty healer$93801370 997 $aUNINA