Early 1900s Cure-All Medicines Would Actually Kill You Dead
There are plenty of reasons to be thankful that you do n’t live in the early 1900s ( child labor laws , air conditioning , what have you ) , but just in case you ’ve been feeling nostalgic for simpler metre , raw research from the University of Detroit Mercy should put those wistful fantasy to rest . After chemically psychoanalyze several dozenpatent medicinesfrom around the dawn of the twentieth century , pharmacist Mark Benvenuto found that many of these completely unwarranted “ miracle cures ” arrest toxins such as jumper cable , mercury , and even arsenic ....