Remarkable Remedies 163 - Cascarets Candy Cathartic - 1899
“In the 1890s the back page of many small town newspapers were filled with ads for patent medicines. There are many cringe-worthy ads from the era, but this is my favorite. This ad greeted readers of the Hood River Sun in 1899, and evidences an inordinate concern with digestive regularity.
Cascarets were one of the blockbuster drug store products of the 1890s. Given that this laxative candy derived from a tree bark was an alternative to swallowing spoons of castor oil, it’s no wonder. You’ll be happy to know a small tin box of Cascarets are in the collection of the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian.”
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Remarkable Remedies 163 - Cascarets Candy Cathartic - 1899
“In the 1890s the back page of many small town newspapers were filled with ads for patent medicines. There are many cringe-worthy ads from the era, but this is my favorite. This ad greeted readers of the Hood River Sun in 1899, and evidences an inordinate concern with digestive regularity.
Cascarets were one of the blockbuster drug store products of the 1890s. Given that this laxative candy derived from a tree bark was an alternative to swallowing spoons of castor oil, it’s no wonder. You’ll be happy to know a small tin box of Cascarets are in the collection of the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian.”
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