David Rosenthal
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Those are patent medicines that are still used for sort of a, you know, health purpose today.
Plenty of products that we still use and consume today started as patent medicines but are no longer marketed as medicines.
You know the bitters that you get in like old-fashioned stuff?
And then, a couple things you might be familiar with.
Coca-Cola started just the same way as a patent medicine.
Which brings us to Dr. John Pemberton, a Confederate war veteran who had not only been stabbed, he had also been shot during the war and got army disease, just like all these other soldiers, and was addicted to morphine for the rest of his life.