Dr. Clark W. Dunlop, a controversial figure, was trained at the Eclectic Medical College of the City of New York and had a successful practice. Born in 1845, after medical school, he created the United States Medicine Co in New York, NY, that produced a variety of patent medicines. The practice and his patent medications made him wildly rich. He purchased real estate in Chicago and Kansas City and settled at 112 West 86th St. in New York. In 1894 he built himself and his wife Eliza, a fancy Mausoleum at the Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx. For the fate of Dr. Dunlop, read Douglas Keister’s piece at https://www.mausoleums.com/portfolio/dunlop-mausoleum. Dunlop’s King of Pain was a pain killer containing 30% alcohol and chloroform for quick abbsorption and claimed to have an effect on a larger range of conditions from cholera to colic, diarrhoea, dysentery to toothache. We do not know the active ingredient but it was created at a time when narcotics were not controlled. Description by Andrew Spielman.
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