Resources

Baillargeon, Denyse. Making Do: Women, Family and Home in Montreal During the Great Depression. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1999.

Berton, Pierre. The Great Depression 1929-1939. Toronto: Penguin Books, 1991.

Dr. Pierce's Memorandum Book. Buffalo: World’s Dispensary Medical Association, 1930.

Gevitz, Norman. “Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery: A Prince of Quacks in the Queen City.” The Journal of Medical Humanities 11, no. 4 (1990): 163-177.

World’s Dispensary Medical Association. “Good Cooking. Useful Information. Read It.” Circa 1925-1930. X715.6 ZZ6425. Gary Draper Cookery Collection. University of Guelph Archival and Special Collections, Guelph.

World’s Dispensary Medical Association. “Handbook Designed for Farmers, Mechanics, Merchants and All People.” Circa 1914-1942. Dr. Michael A. Chiong Patent Medicine Collection. Museum of Healthcare, Kingston.

World’s Dispensary Medical Association. “Important to our Patients.” Circa 1875-1910. Images from the History of Medicine. National Library of Medicine, Maryland.

Young, James Harvey. The Toadstool Millionaires: A Social History of Patent Medicines in America Before Federal Regulation. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1972.

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