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Pharmacy - The original Snake oil Poster
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Pharmacy - The original Snake oil Poster
Ever wonder where the term Snake oil comes from?
It all started on 1879, when a cowboy of 11 years, named Clark Stanley studied under a Hopi medicine man in the Walpi, Arizona. Or that's what he said. From him, he learned the "secrets of Snake Oil". A medicine that can cure so many different kinds of ailments. With the help of a Boston druggist, he began to market the liniment at Western medicine shows.
By 1893, he demonstrated at the World's Colombian Exposition in Chicago, using a number of rattlesnakes as a way to draw in attention. After that he went to create production facilities in Beverly, MA, and Providence, RI.
However it came to an end in 1916, as it went through the Food and Drug act (created in 1906). Where they analyzed it, and found out it was nothing more than mineral oil, capsaicin (from chili peppers), and turpentine. It was found useless, it had no value, and cured nothing. He was fined $20 (about $560 in 2019).
Ever since then the term Snake Oil, is now known as fake, and worthless relating to medicine. The funny thing is though, today's medicine pretty much uses the same ingredients. A pain cream will have capsaicin in it, often a petroleum product like mineral oil, and instead of turpentine, they would use menthol...
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By S.17 January 2013 • Verified Purchase
Print, Size: 58.42cm x 67.37cm, Media: Value Poster Paper (Semi-Gloss)
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I like the design features on the website. They enable the fitting of a good quality Print to an existing frame.
This Print was of excellent quality. I would buy again.
One small gripe is that the image was not centred horizontally (about 3mm out) so needed trimming. No great hardship and may have been my fault in the setting-up.
Next time, I would choose to set the text below the picture to a smaller font.
Overall - Thank You! Looks good in its frame - Just as expected. I had a very expensive Gallery print of this before. It got damaged - hence the replacement. It compares very well.
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Print, Size: 33.02cm x 48.26cm, Media: Value Poster Paper (Semi-Gloss)
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Created on 29/01/2019, 18:20
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