S.S.S. Tonic

Created by Charles Swift, this patent medicine is still for sale today. (Two separate links in that last sentence, if you're interested in following them!) And yet for some reason they make no claim about "purifying and invigorating polluted blood" or "inherited taints."

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Posted By: Paul - Sat Aug 15, 2020
Category: Patent Medicines, Nostrums and Snake Oil | Nineteenth Century | Twentieth Century

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I have seen “its” and “it’s” used incorrectly many times, but that is the first time I have seen “its’. (In the modern-day website).

Posted by Judy on 08/15/20 at 02:19 PM

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