Re: Allopathic arrogance from 1864 to 2007

In an attempt to provide "proof" that medicine today is derived from
"snake oil" from previous times we find:

The Tincture of Snake Runt. Snake root bruised, one ounce and half. ...
of fixed alkaline salt, in a state of combination with animal or
vegeta-ble oil."

Smile, not even close, the snake root mention is not relevant. Here is
the real source:

" snake oil

A product that has been proven to not live up to the vendor's
marketing hype. The term comes from the 1800s in which elixirs and
potions of all kinds, even ones that supposedly included the oils
from
snakes, were sold as a cure for everything that ailed a person."

The first use of it as above was an actual person who traveled around
selling snake oil purely as a marketing gimmic to attract attention, a
label which then came to be associated with all nostrums of dubious
origin and value, not unlike many "alternative drugs" today.

It is good you are now doing some homework, but getting it right is
important also.
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