Humphreys' Specifics

Humphreys' Specifics were a line of American-made homeopathic remedies. There were typically 35 products in the Humphreys Medical Company line. In 2022, researchers determined "sucrose and apigenin were identified as primary components in Humphreys' specifics through the utilization of MS/MS technique." An early 20th-century activist against quack medicine, Arthur J. Cramp, advised as much in a letters to consumers, writing "'If the patient's condition calls for No. 10 and that particular remedy is not at hand, I take it that two doses of No. 5 or one dose each of No. 7 and No. 3 would accomplish the same result,'" and "'If they are truly homeopathic remedies you can take the entire 77 varieties and eat them with the same impunity that you would eat the same amount of milk sugar'."