Grove’s Laxative Bromo Quinine

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Not sure about a laxative having any effect on a cold. Or quinine either. But thousands of people obviously found some relief for nearly eighty years.

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     Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 01, 2016
     Category: Patent Medicines, Nostrums and Snake Oil | Nineteenth Century | Twentieth Century





Comments
Having a cold is the shits anyway why would you need a laxative too?
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 03/01/16 at 10:03 AM
If Colonel Klink says it will work, you can bet it won't.
Posted by Fritz G on 03/02/16 at 08:34 AM
Quinine certainly does not have any effect on a cold, or influenza. Malaria, yes. Diseases related to malaria, probably. But those are protozoan diseases, not viruses. The man was a quack.
Posted by Richard Bos on 03/03/16 at 03:27 PM
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