Tax, medicines and the law : from quackery to pharmacy / Chantal Stebbings.
In 1783, a stamp duty was imposed on proprietary or 'quack' medicines. These largely useless but often dangerous remedies were immensely popular. The tax, which lasted until 1941, was imposed to raise revenue. It failed in its incidental regulatory purpose, had a negative effect in that th...
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2018.
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139178990 |
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