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Good Soap, Bad Medicine

Published: December 18th 2018, 2:01:55 am

I painted a couple more things from the medicine cabinet: another bar of soap, and a bottle of "Taurocol tablets". The tablets are amazing. They're laxatives, and the label says this:

"Increasing Peristalsis, Increasing Flow of Bile. Stimulating the Bile Producing Cells of the Liver."

Sounds great!

(The podcast Sawbones has some fantastic episodes about early 20th century patent medicines, and they touch on that wet n wild era of medicine in general in almost every episode. If you like medical history, please do yourself a favor and listen to this podcast.)

Here are all these guys by themselves: