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What Did People Keep in Their Medicine Cabinets in the 1950s?
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In the mid-20th century, the medicine cabinet was a fixture of many homes. Open one and you’d likely find a thermometer, a box of bandages, maybe a tin of aspirin — basics we still recognize today. But alongside those common essentials were remedies that didn’t just look different from modern products — they were also built on ideas modern medicine has long since abandoned. These old-school treatments reflected the medical knowledge of the era, when the risks of certain heavy metals, narcotics, and chemicals weren’t fully understood. Here are six things people regularly stocked in ...Read More
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What Did People Keep in Their Medicine Cabinets in the 1950s?
In the mid-20th century, the medicine cabinet was a fixture of many homes. Open one and you’d likely find a thermometer, a box of bandages, maybe a tin of aspirin…
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