That Time Perry Davis Trademarked ‘Pain Killer’ and Then Took It Global
Criminalia
Shondaland Audio and iHeartPodcasts
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🗓️ 7 May 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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By the time he was in his 40s, Perry Davis was an entrepreneur who had tried, unsuccessfully, to start multiple businesses; and those failures had left him $4,500 in debt – roughly more than $160,000 today. In 1839, his bad luck continued when he then became ill with debilitating pain. Seeking even just any little bit of relief, he mixed up a concoction, containing mostly opiates and alcohol – a mix that would later become known around the world as, “Perry Davis’ Vegetable Pain Killer.” And Davis would become known as the guy who trademarked the word, ‘painkiller’.
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| 0:59.6 | Welcome to Criminalia, a production of Shondaland Audio in partnership with I Heart Radio. By the time he was in his 40s, Perry Davis was an entrepreneur who had tried |
| 1:18.6 | unsuccessfully to start multiple businesses and those failures had left him $4,500 in debt, |
| 1:25.5 | which is roughly more than $160,000 today. |
| 1:30.4 | In 1839, his bad luck continued when he then became ill with debilitating pain, seeking even just any tiny little bit of relief, he mixed up a concoction containing mostly opiates and alcohol, a mix that would later become |
| 1:46.9 | known around the world as Perry Davis's vegetable painkiller. |
| 1:51.7 | And Davis would become known as the guy who trademarked the word, painkiller. |
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