Haarlem Oil

A 300-year-old "remedy," whose ingredients are:

Ad from 1920.

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Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 02, 2022
Category: Animals | Patent Medicines, Nostrums and Snake Oil | Seventeenth Century

Comments

And in the Dutch dictionaries both as a cure-all, and as a quackery.

Also, and I didn't know this: still made. (I'll pass.)

Posted by Richard Bos on 03/05/22 at 02:23 PM

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