I want to see your patent meds.

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Harry Pristis

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Lest you think that patent meds were an American or British invention:
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Sarsaparilla was used as a treatment for some serious diseases, including syphilis. Here is the translation of the label from a French sarsaparilla medicine, DR. GUSTIN'S RED SARSAPARILLA:

The best purifier of the blood
Doctor Gustin's Red Sarsaparilla

Contains an essence, concentrated against all defects of the blood, gout, rheumatisms, afflictions of the skin, hardening of the arteries, and all the manifestations of arthritis.

Method of use: 2 to 3 spoonsful with soup per day.

2.50 francs per bottle

Principal distributor:
Commercial Pharmacy of France
25 & 27 Drouot Street, Paris
 

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have you ever tried to figure out what the contents were?....a lot of them were alcohol based with a little morphine thrown in for that extra umph...that and the fact that these ingredients actually do relieve symptoms....but not cure however....
 

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