A Cure for what Ails You!

[John Hartwell]

Cincinnati Commercial Tribune, August 12, 1864:

 

[nitrofd]

Cincinnati Commercial Tribune, August 12, 1864:

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John,are you a snake oil salesman now.

 

[grace]

*sigh. We still have this going on in the alternative medicine world as well...some things never change.

 

[nitrofd]

*sigh. We still have this going on in the alternative medicine world as well...some things never change.

Sometimes my daughter has strange iseas for my grandkids.

 

[grace]

I'm all for strange ideas--I work in that world! But there's a barrier that far too many people just run over...then and now.

 

[John Hartwell]

[Shepherdstown Register (W.Va.), Aug. 28, 1891]​

 

[lelliott19]

Cincinnati Commercial Tribune, August 12, 1864:

"Any one who is so unfortunate as to eat too much, may save himself a fit of Apoplexy, or other serious consequences, by immediately taking the Pill."​

Do you think I can still get some of these pills?

 

[archieclement]

I used to have a book on folk cures, apparently the miracle drug that has somehow been lost to time , was a mixture of hog lard and turpentine, could be taken orally or used in poultice's, or as ointment.

Added bonus was the turpentine could deworm you too

 

[Patrick H]

This ought to be a fun thread!

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

" General debility ", love to see the insurance send this back for preauthorization.

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

All of these are between 1861 and 1865, snipped from era papers.