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Article: Bad Medicine
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- April 24, 1994
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John Swann, custodian of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's
historic collection, begins plucking colorfully labeled bottles off
a shelf at the agency's Rockville headquarters.
"It was believed that Native Americans had a special knowledge
of medicinal substances," he says, hefting a bottle of Kickapoo
Sagwa laxative, "so Indians often were shown on quack medicine
labels at the turn of the century."
Swann proceeds to display an assortment of lotions, potions and
gadgets with one thing in common: None of them works. In addition to
the Kickapoo elixir (9 1/2 percent alcohol), there's the bell-shaped
glass Turbo-Bust developer; the Radiant Cosmic Disk, a hunk of gray
material the size ...
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