Schenck’s Mandrake Pills

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Posted By: Paul - Tue Apr 23, 2019
Category: Patent Medicines, Nostrums and Snake Oil | Nineteenth Century | Twentieth Century

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Mandrake is known to cause hallucinations. I could use a break from reality.

agent j

Posted by agent j on 04/23/19 at 06:20 PM

Looking at the brochure, Dr. Schenck’s competition was stuff containing mercury. So his snake oil was probably less deadly that some others.

Posted by ges on 05/02/19 at 08:30 PM

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