Feature Work:
Antitrust Vertical Myopia: The Allure of High Prices, Arizona Law Review 50: 261-287 (2008)
Quack and Patent Medicine Ads
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Dr. Mile's Anti-Pain Pills for Headache
Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry (Click on the thumbnail to read the blurb of this ad)
Dr. Miles' Nervine
Hartman's Peruna
(Click on the thumbnail to read the blurb of this ad)
Dr. Miles' Nervine
Dr. Miles' Medicine List (including prices)
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral (1904)
Ayer's Hair Vigor (1904)

Dr. Miles denounces the cure-all medicines, offering a $5,000 reward to anyone who can find "one atom of opuim, chloral, morphine, cocaine, ether or chloroform, heroin" in any of Dr. Miles' medicines.

Dr. Miles' Famous Uncle Ezra (Uncle Ezra perfomed popular radio commercials for Dr. Miles).

(Click on the thumbnail to read the blurb on the back of this postcard and find out who Uncle Ezra was).
Dr. Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry: An 1878 ad with testimonies.

(Click on the thumbnail to read testimonies).
 
Barak Y. Orbach: Resale Price Maintenance


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