A lot of traveling snake-oil salesmen promised placidity-aiding elixirs for da mind and body, but said calmmerce usually only benefited said sellers, while da duped purchasers of his quack-cure products actually ended up even MORE tensely hot under da collar when they discovered dat da "medicine" they'd expensively bought was merely a useless (and often highly toxic, such as ones containing mercury or arsenic!) mixture of potently-nasty stuff like turpentine or 100-proof grain-alcohol, dangerous narcotics like opium or cocaine, and harmfully-powerful laxatives like castor oil and even petroleum derivatives.
by QuacksO April 27, 2025