Pharmacy - The traveling medicine show 1890 Wood Print

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Colorized photo from 1890
Original title: Traveling medicine show
Photographer: Unknown
Location: 299 M.L.K. Jr Rd Natchez, Mississippi

The FDA was created to prevent fake medicine getting out into human hands, it was created in 1906. But before then, anything goes. They sold all sorts of cures that did nothing. Anyone could make a medicine, claim a cure and make a buck. Tonics that cured the common cold, that helped your toothache, that could make you a better dancer and its a great furniture polish.

Carts like these would be set up in town, they would have a show, maybe they would sing, or have a plant in the audience to get a crowd together. This one used snakes. Probably because it had snake oil in it. But not really.

The first known product that did very, very well, making the person rich, was a product called Snake Oil. Said to cure everything, he sold a lot of it. When the FDA looked it over in 1916, they discovered it was nothing more tha...

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