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Life Back Then: Cure-Alls, Free Prescriptions, and Lamps That Promised Not to Explode - The Sun Times News

From the Dexter Leader, December 23, 1869: What area readers were sold before medicine and safety were regulated Peruse an issue of newspapers in the late 1800s, and you quickly realize how different everyday life was, especially when it came to health and safety. The advertising columns read like a catalogue of hope, fear, and bold promises, many of them unthinkable today or, at the very least, controversial. Medicines were largely unregulated,…
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