We use the term "snake oil" for anything promoted... ...ed as a cure-all that doesn't work, whether it is medicine or political policy. But back in the 1860s, Chine... ...1989 analysis published in the Western Journal of Medicine , Chinese water-snake oil contains 20 percent eico...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/21/how-snake-oil-got-a-bad-rap/Got a headache? Well, nowadays you pop an ibuprofe... ...published a story that outlined the dangers of 10 patent medicines for headaches:THERE are ten drugs often contained... ...headaches:THERE are ten drugs often contained in patent headache medicines which are so dangerou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/15/10-headache-medicines-of-yore-to-avoid/I'm a little late in posting this, but it's too aw... ...s a copy of a 1905 letter sent by Mark Twain to a patent medicine salesman who tried to sell bogus medicine . Twain was furious to have received the pitch as...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/03/mark-twain-pwns-snake-oil-salesman/
