Anti-Fut-Swet

It "Hardens the feet".

Chattanooga Daily Times - June 11, 1898

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Posted By: Alex - Fri Mar 13, 2020
Category: Advertising | Nineteenth Century | Feet

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Being a patent medicine, I don't put too much stock in the symptoms that it is supposed to treat. But what caught my eye was the symptom of "scalded foot." Wouldn't you think of a burn from exposure to hot liquid? So, I looked up the definition and found that it is a staph infection and can be serious. I had never seen the term before and now I'll be constantly checking between my toes for something out of the ordinary.

It's also a term for a bacterial infection of sheep and goats that affects their hooves.

Posted by KDP on 03/13/20 at 08:58 AM

What were the ingredients?

Posted by Judy on 03/13/20 at 11:41 AM

When I first saw the title, I pronounced it in my mind as:

Anti-fute-sweet

So I was confused when I started reading the ad.

Posted by Judy on 03/13/20 at 11:45 AM

The marching soldiers were in the Spanish American War which lasted less than four months.

Posted by ges on 03/13/20 at 04:15 PM

Well, dunno about the medicine itself, but trench foot always has been a serious thing.

Posted by Richard Bos on 03/15/20 at 06:40 AM

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