Who Really Made the Real ‘Daffy’s Elixir’ and What Was Really In It?

Criminalia

Shondaland Audio and iHeartPodcasts

True Crime, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Daffy's Elixir was one of the most popular patent medicines in Britain -- and it sold for nearly 300 years, which is amazing considering these types of products were often a flash in a pan. But what makes this product different than others we’ve talked about this snake oil season, other than its longevity, is that its ingredients list wasn’t kept secret -- it was a novel idea to publish ingredients for patent medicines at a time when most products didn’t even put that information on the label. And manufacturers seemed to be okay with that -- maybe because no one could actually prove ownership.

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1:13.2	Welcome to Criminalia, a production of Shondaland Audio in partnership with I Heart Radio. Daffy's Elyxer was one of the most popular patent medicines in Britain during the 18th century.
1:25.5	And it was produced for nearly 300 years, which is amazing considering these types of products
1:30.0	were usually often just a flash in a pan. But what makes Daffey's different than others we've talked about this season, other than perhaps its longevity, is that its ingredients list was not a secret.
1:50.0	Initially, maybe, but it didn't stay that way for very long, and the manufacturers, plural, seemed to be okay with that. And then there's the question of ownership. Who thought of it and whose recipe was the original?
1:57.0	As the story goes, it was probably created by clergyman Thomas Daffey of Red Mile Leicestershire in 1647. He named it
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