Blame unregulated advertising. Early medicinal ads used outrageous rhetoric to claim the virtues of drugs, cures, products for health, beauty or virility. Any enterprising could make, bottle label and sell something that promised to renew lost vigor, promote longevity, cure baldness, or treat hysteria -often with the same ointment.  |
| cigarettes to help soothe asthma?? |
or this,
