Garshott, Danielle, Andrew Diefenbach, Elizabeth MacDonald, Thomas Sanday, Meghann Murray, Mary Fahey, and Mark Benvenuto
A selected grouping of patent medicines, permanently housed in the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI, have been analyzed by energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence (EDXRF) spectroscopy as well as proton NMR. Such materials were manufactured over a century ago under clandestine circumstances, and thus the ingredients and recipes have never been made public. The findings for metals and organics in these items are presented.