Turlington's Balsam of Life (Thomas Anderton advertisement, Pennsylvania Packet, 17 February 1772)
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SUMMARY
Academic digital-humanities blog project (run by Carl Robert Keyes, a history professor, cataloguing dated 18th-century American newspaper advertisements), verified by direct fetch, which reproduces the colonial merchant Thomas Anderton's advertisement text for 'TURLINGTON's BALSAM OF LIFE; OR THE TRUE AMERICAN BALSAM' from the Pennsylvania Packet of 17 February 1772, including Anderton's claim that the balsam had 'true merit, of universal experience, utility and reputation,' superior to 'all the other known Balsams,' and was prepared 'from a true copy of the original receipt, taken out of the Chancery-office, in London, where it is recorded on oath, when the patent was granted.'
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A post from the Adverts 250 Project, an academic digital-humanities project cataloguing dated 18th-century American newspaper advertisements, documenting a Thomas Anderton advertisement for Turlington’s Balsam of Life in the Pennsylvania Packet of 17 February 1772. Cited in this case as the dated primary-source record of the balsam’s continued colonial American marketing after Turlington’s 1766 death, under his original patent claim.