Ointment pots in an age of quack cures

摘要

Between 1820 and 1930 there was a tremendous rise,and then decline,in the use of all manner of quack medical products,especially ointments as a cure for skin complaints of almost any nature.The rise was largely brought about by the ability to transfer print on to the small ceramic containers that held the ointments and the earlier tin-glazed delftware containers,on which the name of the druggist had been hand-painted,were replaced by millions of mass-produced pots.