Soon, production facilities for his trademarked snake oil product popped up in Massachusetts and Rhode Island (the druggist he worked with was from Boston), and hed go down in history as the epitome of the late 19th century, traveling medical conman In 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act came down on medical quacks like Stanley, who as it turns out, was filling his snake oil with nothing more than fats, mineral oil, turpentine, and a dash of red pepper
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