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15/06/2021

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Coca-Cola is widely known as being a symbol of America. It was created by Dr. John Pemberton — a famous physician in the 1800s. When the Civil War hit, he to...

22/05/2021

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22/05/2021

22/05/2021

KETCHUP WAS USED AS MEDICINE
In 1834, Dr. John Cooke Bennet added tomatoes to ketchup. Previously, ketchup had been a concoction of fish or mushrooms.
The addition of tomatoes meant it added a a plethora of vitamins and antioxidants to the sauce.
He claimed his recipe could cure:
Diarrhea
Indigestion
Jaundice
Rheumatism
He had pill salesman, Archibald Miles, make his sauce into extract of tomato pills.
THE KETCHUP WARS
Once Dr. Bennet’s pills hit the market, brigades of copycats began selling their own tomato-based pills.
Unfortunately, some of these copycats simply sold laxatives with no trace of tomatoes. They also made wild claims that their pills could cure everything from scurvy to mend bones.
Due to the false claims, the ketchup medicine empire collapsed in 1850.

Info credit to: https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/ketchup-was-once-used-as-medicine/

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20/05/2021

A healthy reminder from Shammah Drugstore. Be safe everyone.