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Diet products that promised you could eat what you like and not have to do any tedious exercise had a market in the early 20th century, even though today’s media would have us believe that everyone in the good old days was more robustly active than us morally decrepit modern lard-arses.<\/p>\n
While many of today’s diet products require you to ingest something, this one was even more effortless – all you had to do was put some pleasant effervescing power in your bath, and in a few weeks you would be the svelte siren of your husband’s dreams.<\/p>\n
At least, you would be if Epsom salts had any power to dissolve blubber. The product, a white powder, was analysed by the chemical laboratory of the American Medical Association and found to be Epsom salts, alum, citric acid, camphor and sodium bicarbonate. The Association’s article on the substance, published in the Annual Report for 1914, concluded ‘Like every other bath salt sold as a ‘cure’ for obesity, “Every Woman’s Flesh Reducer” is a fraud.’<\/em><\/p>\n \n<\/p> \n<\/p> \n<\/p> \n<\/p> \n<\/p> \n<\/p> \n<\/p> \n<\/p> \n<\/p> \n<\/p> \n<\/p> \n<\/p> ……..<\/span>Take Off That ………..<\/span>___________<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n …………..<\/span><\/span>.<\/span>________________<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n<\/p> Source: The Indianapolis Star<\/em>, 13 October 1913<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Diet products that promised you could eat what you like and not have to do any tedious exercise had a market in the early 20th century, even though today’s media would have us believe that everyone in the good old days was more robustly active than us morally decrepit modern lard-arses. While many of today’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[500],"tags":[60,66,87,124,32],"class_list":["post-1562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-patentmeds","tag-1910s-advertising","tag-20th-century","tag-diet-products","tag-obesity","tag-weight-loss","eq-blocks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pKwhj-pc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thequackdoctor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thequackdoctor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thequackdoctor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thequackdoctor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thequackdoctor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thequackdoctor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7233,"href":"https:\/\/thequackdoctor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562\/revisions\/7233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thequackdoctor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thequackdoctor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thequackdoctor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n …………..<\/span>Weight of Fat<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\nEVERY WOMAN’S FLESH REDUCER.
\n …..<\/span>Easy, Wonderful, External Method
\n ………….<\/span>for Men and Women.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\nResults or Money Back Guaranteed to
\n .<\/span>Users of $2.00 Package, which Con-
\n ..<\/span>tains Three Times Amount in $1 Size.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\nJust dissolve Every Woman’s Flesh Re-
\nducer in your bath, and that’s all! Your
\nsuperfluous fat will fade away, easily,
\nsurely and without any bad effects. Day
\nby day your figure will become more and
\nmore as it should be – graceful, trim and
\nbeautiful. No need to starve yourself,
\ndose with harmful, drastic drugs or go
\nthrough exhausting and ridiculous exer-
\ncises.
\n…<\/span>Be Rid of Your Handicap. EVERY
\n…..<\/span>WOMAN’S FLESH REDUCER
\n……………..<\/span>is the Easy Way.
\n….<\/span>Superfluous fat is humiliating – is dan-
\ngerous.
\n….<\/span>Every Woman’s Flesh Reducer will
\nquickly and naturally relieve you of all
\nabnormal fat. You can keep your weight
\njust where you want it, and not feel
\nweakened or exhausted. Indeed, you’ll
\nfeel stronger and better in very way.
\n …<\/span>You can not be happy while you carry
\naround with you that load of useless,
\nenergy-using fat. Rid yourself of the
\nburden. Get out of life the energy you
\nare entitled to.
\n….<\/span>Get Every Woman’s Flesh Reducer and
\nbegin its use today. At drug and depart-
\nment stores, $1 or $2, or sent on receipt of
\nprice by The Every Woman Company
\n(Not Inc.) 30 South Fifth avenue, Chi-
\ncago, Ill. For sale and recommended in
\nIndianapolis by Weber Drug Company,
\nboth stores: Felger’s Pharmacy, both
\nstores, Henry J. Huder, both stores.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n