Throughout the 19th century, patent medicines and health gadgets went into every home; people took them for every sort of disease. Many were worthless, some positively harmful; but a gullible public went on swallowing and the ' quacks made their fortunes.
Written by LEO KNOWLES
Narrator GEOFFREY WHEELER with the voices of DAVID MAHLOWE , GEOFFREY BANKS MARAH STOHL , JOHN LINSTRUM HERBERT SMITH , DAVID HATTON PETER ELLIS , CHRIS WILKINSON ELIZABETH MCKENZIE
Producer MICHAEL GREEN (Manchester)