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Snake Oil & Medicine Shows

Welcome to Snake Oil and Medicine Shows 

This page features Information about the present day and historic Medicine Shows.

You will find a grand assortment of miscellaneous & interesting articles, stories, artwork, pictures, links etc. etc. etc.  For just 25 cent, We have here Snake Oil & Medicine Shows it is everything you need for what AILS YA!

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Snake Oil & Medicine Shows Title         Author More about the Mighty Atom     The Mighty Atom Mayfire   Medicine Show Dakota Dan's Miracle Cure Mephisto   Rolling Thunder Chief Medicine Man of the Kiowa Nation Cabinet Card & Poster    WM. D. NAYLOR's STORY William Naylor   Arkansas Shakes William Naylor   Uncle Zeb's Inside Frog William Naylor   The Dancing Turkeys William Naylor         The Medicine the Drove the Show Kickapoo Pills 04-29-2006         Links   J. Phineas Flusterbeck Magic Medicine Show   Miller & Wilson's Theater of Marvels   Doc Walker's Olde Time Modern Day Sideshow of the Future   Paul Moore "Musical Medicine Show" One Man Band   J.W.Johnson, "Snatched" By Indians ................... Joins Medicine Show   Virtual Medicine Show   Dr. Wilson & His Amazing Memory Elixir     Here Today, Here Tomorrow - The Medicine Show   Medicine Man Show    Dr. Horsehair       Streaming Video, Audio Clips,  History and Just a Great Time   Dr Wilson reveals the Feejee Mermaid to his shocked hosts!   Free Show Tonight the American Medicine Show (remember to watch the steaming video)   The Medicine Show - Alive!           Dr. Bumstead's Celebrated Lenape Liquid Show FREE SHOW TONIGHT   Photographs   Doc Barth's Medicine Show   Medicine Park Marauders - Buffalo Elixir Medicine Show   FREE SHOW TONIGHT   Medicine Show on the streets of Huntington Tennessee 1935         Quaquenbusch Medicine Show Quaquenbusch Medicine Show Quaquenbusch Medicine Show Quaquenbusch Medicine Show Quaquenbusch Medicine Show Quaquenbusch Medicine Show Quaquenbusch Medicine Show Quaquenbusch Medicine Show Dr. Wilson warns of the dangers of cataleptic neuroplexy at Cirque du Poulet! Photo: David Allen Dr. Wilson draws the crowd into a game of Fast and Loose. Photo: Meri Fox-Szauter Dr. Wilson and Gypsy Fortune Teller Tammy at Dr. Wilson's Emporium in 2003   Photo: Rob Packie The Most Incredible Feat of Number Memorization Ever Performed in Public! Photo: Anthony Nicholson Fortified by Dr. Wilson's Memory Elixir, Dr. Wilson memorizes a deck of cards! Photo: David Allen Dr. Wilson opens the way at Cirque du Poulet 2003. Photo: David Allen Dr. Wilson's Memory Elixir has been sold throughout the world!  Cabinet Card   Photo: Paul Szauter and Meri Fox-Szauter Dr. Wilson uses a CO2-powered confetti launcher to celebrate the end of the Lobster Races   Photo: Michael Rosenstein     Old Squaw Snake Oil Banner circa 1900-20 Dr. Quaquenbusch Medicine Show Modern Cabinet Card circa 2004 © 2004 JR Robinson Dr.Smith's Med. Show Modern Cabinet Card circa 2006 © 2006 JR Robinson Beardarine Poster     Pocahontas Indian Remedy Elixir The Traveling Quack Old Wagon Medicine

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