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The Life and Workings of the Beaver, by Dr. Jones Beaver Oil Co.

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The Life and Workings of the Beaver, by Dr. Jones Beaver Oil Co.
The Life and Workings of the Beaver, by Dr. Jones Beaver Oil Co.
The Life and Workings of the Beaver, by Dr. Jones Beaver Oil Co.
The Life and Workings of the Beaver, by Dr. Jones Beaver Oil Co.
The Life and Workings of the Beaver, by Dr. Jones Beaver Oil Co.
The Life and Workings of the Beaver, by Dr. Jones Beaver Oil Co.
The Life and Workings of the Beaver, by Dr. Jones Beaver Oil Co.
The Life and Workings of the Beaver, by Dr. Jones Beaver Oil Co.
The Life and Workings of the Beaver, by Dr. Jones Beaver Oil Co.
The Life and Workings of the Beaver, by Dr. Jones Beaver Oil Co.
The Life and Workings of the Beaver, by Dr. Jones Beaver Oil Co.
The Life and Workings of the Beaver, by Dr. Jones Beaver Oil Co.

The Life and Workings of the Beaver, by Dr. Jones Beaver Oil Co. Circa early 1900s stapled softcover. 14 pages, very nice condition.

A great vintage booklet related to early quack medical / snake oil history. Dr. Jones’ Beaver Oil was sold as a cure “for the treatment of Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sore Throat and Quinsy, Headache, Toothache, Backache, Bruises.”

The original Dr. Jones was Erasmus Darwin Jones, M.D., who, according to Volume 52 of the Transactions of the American Institute of Homeopathy, was born in Essex County, NY, in 1818, the son of a doctor who was the son of a doctor. He studied with Dr. Alden March at Albany Medical College, graduating in 1841. He returned to Keeseville and then became keenly interested in the emerging principles of homeopathy. In 1846 he moved to Albany and was one of the founders of the Albany Dispensary and Homeopathic Hospital, as well as founding the New York State Homeopathic Society.

Dr. Jones’ son, Charles E. Jones, was a fourth-generation doctor from the family. He practiced alongside his father and was just as involved in the Homeopathic Hospital and the local homeopathic medical society. In 1903, he honored: “In connection with the building of the new Homeopathic hospital there is a desire on the part of the friends of the late Dr. Charles E. Jones to create a suitable and lasting memorial to his memory . . . It was well said of him: ‘His life was devoted to the alleviation of the pains and ills of humanity, and it mattered not to Dr. Jones whether his patient had a well-filled purse or was among the poorest of the poor. The sufferings of this world were made less for those who were within the reach of his activity.’” The first actual mentions of Dr. Jones Beaver Oil are found in newspaper advertisements dating from 1903, with a big push from 1907 to 1919.