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  1. Vietnam Veteran Claims Agent Orange Illness
    date 1979map Jefferson, Louisianatags War, Health

    Upon returning home from Vietnam, Marine Lance Corporal Kenneth Pullen claimed that he had been a victim of Agent Orange poisoning. Since his honorable discharge in 1967, eight years before the war ended, Pullen suffered from a wide variety of illnesses. Doctors diagnosed him with having anything from jungle rot to trench foot, to Buerger’s Disease to arthritis. No doctor has been able to give him...

  2. Black-Draught and Cardui Promise Quick Relief
    date 1806 to 1831map Blount, Tennesseetags Medicine/Health, Health

    Mr. J. H. Davidson from Scarborough, Tenn. wrote on June 1st, 1887, "For several years I have [had] serious trouble with my liver. It has appeared to be enlarged, and was slightly sore. Pains in abdomen and chest were frequent, and excruciating pains in both lungs often made me fear consumption. At times I had headache and dry throat.  In April, 1816, I tried Thedford's Black- Draught and it gave...

  3. Columbus Discovers Ayer’s Sarsaparilla
    date 1883 to 1899map MIDDLESEX, Massachusettstags Medicine/Health, Health

    Columbus and his men are on their journey to America, and to their surprise, they seem to find "AYER'S SARSAPARILLA" waiting for them on the shores of the New World. In the play on words, the Victorian Trading Card claims, "Without Doubt the Discovery of America is Ayer's Sarsaparilla. Dr. Ayer's almanac gives the signatures of thousands of sick people who consumed Ayer's Sarsaparilla and fully recovered...

  4. Vegetable Compound Cures Women's ills
    date 1862 to 1883map MIDDLESEX, Massachusettstags Health, Medicine/Health

    In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in the successful patent medicine business, the most popular product was Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Pinkham claimed to treat the worst cases completely from her Vegetable Compound. This claim comes from Victorian trading card of Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound that is found in many different styles. Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound was made...