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Posted By: Paul - Mon Oct 30, 2023
Category: New Age | Supernatural, Occult, Paranormal | Patent Medicines, Nostrums and Snake Oil | Books | 1920s

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https://hatch.kookscience.com/wiki/Ralstonism

Posted by ges on 10/30/23 at 08:22 AM

It gets weirder. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralstonism

Posted by ges on 10/30/23 at 08:53 AM

And this: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/610426/ralstonism-history-health-movement

Posted by ges on 10/30/23 at 08:57 AM

To lure more of the curious. The Ralston cited in the above articles is the upper half of the Ralston-Purina corporation. Like Kellogg's they started as purveyors of special diets reserved for the elite followers of their, shall we say 'unique', worldviews.

Posted by eddi on 10/31/23 at 04:50 AM

Funny how the Ralston-Purina corporation started with elite people and ended with proletarian cats and dogs.

Posted by Yudith on 11/01/23 at 06:34 PM

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