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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2023
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S-1539. X-ZALIA MEDICINE COMPANY.
X-Zalia. [Boston: X-Zalia Medicine Co., ca. 1893].
[2] leaves ; 12.5 x 13.5 cm.In illustrated and untitled wrapper. The title has been taken from the bold heading on leaf [1] recto. A collection of testimonials regarding the vegetable-based skin ointment X-Zalia. The X-Zalia Medicine Co. became the X-Zalia Corporation ca. 1900 (see #3892, 3893).
S-1540. YARNALL, Jane W.
Practical healing for mind and body. A complete treatise on the principles and practice of healing by a knowledge of divine law … Third edition. Revised … Chicago: [Published by F.M. Harley Pub. Co.], 1894.
316, [2] p. ; 20 cm.The F.M. Harley imprint has been handstamped in blue ink beneath the original imprint on the title-page. For a brief discussion of this work, see the annotation to #3895.
YATES, Christopher C. see PORTER's HEALTH ALMANAC, FOR 1833 (#S-1031.2); YATES (#3896).
S-1541. DERK P. YONKERMAN CO.
Tuberculozyne (Yonkerman). A tested and proved remedy for consumption, bronchitis, asthma, catarrh and all allied throat and lung troubles. London, England; Kalamazoo, Mich., U.S.A.: Derk P. Yonkerman Co., Limited, [ca. 1909].
48 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 21.5 cm.The Canadian-trained veterinarian Derk P. Yonkerman began the manufacture and marketing of his consumption cure (Tuberculozyne) in Kalamazoo, Mich. He eventually extended production and sales to Australia and Great Britain (see the annotation to #3899). Yonkerman claims to have conducted tests providing “indisputable proofs of the power of Tuberculozyne to kill the germs of consumption and quickly destroy all trace of them in blood and tissue” (p. 10). The remedy worked on the premise that “consumption germs (tubercle bacilli) cannot live in the presence of copper,” which Tuberculozyne, being “a combination of certain salts of copper,” introduces into the blood (p. 13). “By the introduction of Tuberculozyne into the body, the blood is rendered strongly antiseptic against the poisonous tubercle bacilli” (p. 30).
The remedy received considerable attention in the A.M.A.'s Nostrums and quackery (#86, I:175ff), as well as in the British Medical Association's Secret remedies (#S-176, pp. 32ff), which provides a detailed analysis of its composition (p. 35). The Atwater copy is described as the “16th edition” (verso of half-title), and includes a frontispiece portrait of Yonkerman. Title on wrapper: Tuberculozyne cures consumption.
YONKERMAN COMPANY see HALL, F. (#S-490.6, S-491).
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- An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health ReformVolume III, Supplement: A–Z, pp. 657 - 660Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2008