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iHeartRadio. According

1:22

to the Vermont State Pharmacy Association in 1921,

1:25

quote, Dr. Kilmer's swamp root kidney, liver

1:30

and bladder medicine is a medicine

1:32

of genuine merit. Thousands

1:35

of letters we have received from

1:37

druggists indicate that this has won the

1:39

confidence of the people. We

1:42

believe that the druggist who recommends

1:44

it thereby helps his own reputation

1:46

for reliability and truthfulness as his

1:48

customer is usually satisfied with the

1:50

results obtained from the use of

1:52

swamp root. Their

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1:59

pure and excellence. They

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weren't wrong. Swamp root was

2:04

a very popular patent medicine

2:07

product, but made

2:09

with honor and reputation

2:11

for truthfulness,

2:14

aren't we here in snake oil season?

2:17

Let's meet Dr. Kilmer and the

2:19

Kilmer family and talk about how

2:22

swamp root made them a ton

2:24

of money. Welcome to

2:26

Criminalia, I'm Maria Tremarke. And

2:28

I'm Holly Frye. The Kilmer

2:31

family was from the village of Cobbleskill,

2:33

New York, but this story takes place

2:35

in Binghamton, New York, that's about 100

2:37

miles away. It's

2:39

been said that the family was not

2:41

well liked. It's also been

2:43

said they didn't much like each other.

2:46

But we're not here to talk

2:49

family dynamics. Several generations

2:51

of Kilmer's influence to Binghamton's economy

2:53

and politics, it is the place

2:56

they left their mark. So

2:58

let's begin with Sylvester Andral Kilmer, who was

3:01

born on December 19th, 1840, one of 11

3:03

children. Andral,

3:07

as he was known, is the one who

3:09

started this whole thing. He

3:11

was well educated in medicine. We don't

3:13

see a lot of that in the

3:15

stories of snake oil salesmen, so that

3:17

seems like a good start. At

3:20

the age of 18, he entered his first

3:22

apprenticeship at the office of a man named

3:24

Dr. Scott, who was a prominent

3:26

allopathic physician in West Coherie County. He

3:29

then studied with Dr. Downing, who

3:32

was considered not only a successful

3:34

doctor, but also a pioneer of

3:36

homeopathy in New York State. When

3:39

Andral Kilmer, Dr. Kilmer, started his

3:41

own practice, it was as a

3:43

physician in the town of Barnerville,

3:46

only about four miles from

3:48

Cobbleskill. But he

3:50

also decided to continue his studies,

3:52

hoping to gain a broad knowledge

3:54

of medicine and surgery. And he

3:57

studied, well, a lot of things

3:59

in a lot of. places. He

4:01

apprenticed in eclectic and botanic

4:03

practice with Dr. Patrick of

4:05

Wisconsin. He attended Bellevue

4:07

Hospital and Medical College in New York

4:10

City, where he had specific

4:12

instruction at the Eye and Ear

4:14

Infirmary on Blackwell's Island, which today

4:16

is known as Roosevelt Island. At

4:20

the Philadelphia Lying and Charity

4:22

Hospital, he attended a special

4:24

course of instruction in practical

4:26

obstetrics and diseases of women.

4:29

He also received similar instruction

4:31

at the Central Dispensary of

4:33

Chicago. He studied at

4:35

the Philadelphia School of Operative Surgery

4:37

under noted physician Dr. Dee Hayes

4:39

Agnew, and he also

4:41

received a diploma from the Bennett

4:43

Medical College of Chicago. So this

4:45

guy was bonafide. And

4:48

after embarking on a successful tour

4:50

of medical lectures and practice, he

4:52

settled in Binghamton, New York. When

4:56

he first arrived in the city, he was

4:58

a visiting physician, providing services in

5:00

Binghamton and the surrounding towns just a

5:02

few days a week. His

5:04

medical practice and treatments became a

5:07

huge success, and he soon began

5:09

overseeing the construction of what

5:11

would be his laboratory buildings. These

5:13

were built with the intention of manufacturing

5:16

the remedies that he provided his patients,

5:19

remedies that were in ever-increasing

5:21

demand. Sometime

5:23

between 1878 and 1881, records are a little bit fuzzy

5:26

on that date, but it's likely 1878,

5:33

Andril invited his brother Jonas, a businessman

5:35

and graduate of the Bryant and Stratton

5:38

Business College in Albany, New York, to

5:40

help build what would become the hugely

5:43

successful patent medicine company, Kilmer &

5:46

Company. Jonas moved to

5:48

Binghamton and became responsible for the

5:50

company's advertising and marketing, and

5:52

generally ran the facility. Their

5:55

first major laboratory and manufacturing plant

5:57

was located at the corners of

5:59

Chinook. Nango and Virgil streets. Andra

6:02

prepared many, many medicines

6:04

in those laboratories, including

6:07

Dr. Kilmer's ocean weed heart

6:09

remedy, Dr. Kilmer's Indian

6:11

cough cure, Dr. Kilmer's

6:14

liver pills, autumn leaf extract,

6:16

UNO ointment, and Dr. Kilmer's

6:19

female remedy, which was described

6:21

as, quote, the

6:23

great blood purifier and system

6:26

regulator, as well as, quote,

6:28

the only herbal alternative

6:31

and depurative ever discovered,

6:33

specifically adapted to female

6:35

constitutions. But the

6:38

most well-known and best selling

6:40

product manufactured by Kilmer and

6:42

Company was Dr. Kilmer's swamp

6:44

root, kidney, liver, and bladder cure.

6:47

Note we've also seen it

6:49

labeled as Dr. Kilmer's swamp

6:51

root, kidney, liver, and bladder

6:53

remedy or medicine. Same

6:55

thing. Swamp

6:58

root, as it was popularly known, was introduced

7:00

in the mid 1870s. It

7:03

was an early item and probably the

7:05

first that was developed by Andra and

7:07

quickly became a household name. And

7:10

when you become that popular, it's not really

7:12

a surprise that people want to get in

7:14

on your success. There

7:17

were more than a few counterfeit products

7:19

that bore the Kilmer name. Inspired

7:22

imitators and counterfeiters produced products

7:24

that looked and sounded very

7:26

similar to the Kilmer products,

7:28

but could not and cannot be

7:30

found in any of the company's

7:32

official advertising or records. These

7:35

included, but were not limited

7:37

to, Dr. Kilmer's wild Indian

7:39

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12:39

begin talking about the Swamp Root

12:41

product. But we also

12:43

have a bit of company slash

12:45

brotherly scandal to discuss, too. Let's

12:49

talk about the star of the product line

12:51

first. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root

12:53

Kidney Liver and Bladder Cure. It

12:56

was a patented mixture of, quote, 24

12:59

proof and some herbs and spices at $1 a bottle,

13:03

according to an advertisement that also promised

13:05

it was a medical cure all. According

13:08

to an early ingredient list, though,

13:10

Swamp Root was actually a bit

13:13

of a lot of things. It

13:15

contained, quote, buku

13:17

leaves, oil of

13:19

juniper, oil of birch,

13:21

columbar root, sassafras, balsam

13:23

copaiba, balsam tolu, skullcap

13:25

leaves, venice turpentine, valerian

13:28

root, rhubarb root, mandrake

13:30

root, peppermint herb,

13:32

cape aloes, cinnamon, and sugar.

13:35

And it contained approximately 9%

13:37

to 10.5% alcohol per dose. We

13:41

did also see some ingredient lists

13:43

containing all of these with the

13:46

addition of goldenseal root. It

13:48

can be hard to nail down what

13:50

was really in patent medicines, but this

13:52

one seems to have stayed pretty consistent

13:54

over the years. The active

13:57

ingredient buku has been historically

13:59

used. used for urinary tract

14:01

infections, including those involving the

14:03

kidneys. So that's one

14:06

plus for this ingredient list's

14:08

benefits. Swamp

14:10

root was an exotically named

14:12

product. And its name was

14:15

the kind that patent medicine marketers liked

14:17

to use because they felt it made

14:19

the product more intriguing to consumers. While

14:22

it's unclear as to whether or

14:24

not Andral knew of and borrowed

14:26

from indigenous healing and herbal remedies,

14:29

he certainly did not mention it, there

14:31

is a plant called in Spanish,

14:34

Yerba delmanzo, which translates in English

14:36

to herb of the swamp. It

14:39

does grow in the United States, mostly

14:41

in Arizona. Did herb of

14:43

the swamp inspire swamp roots somehow?

14:46

There's nothing notable to suggest that

14:48

he took advantage of an indigenous

14:51

healing trope, whether in regard

14:53

to his remedies, ingredients, or even just

14:55

the name. But it is

14:57

an interesting connection at a time when

14:59

that was a very common thing to

15:01

do in proprietary medicine branding and advertising,

15:04

as suggested by those two imitator names we

15:06

mentioned just a bit ago. Speculation

15:10

though aside, when it hit the market

15:12

in the late 19th century, swamp

15:14

root packaging promised it was your

15:16

one stop remedy. But it

15:19

was most heavily marketed as a quote, diuretic

15:21

for the kidneys and a mild laxative.

15:24

The company claimed that quote, swamp root

15:27

tends to promote the flow of urine,

15:29

thereby aiding the kidneys in their necessary

15:31

work of eliminating waste matter. It

15:34

was sold in a screw cap

15:36

bottle contained in a bright orange

15:38

box bearing an engraved portrait of

15:40

S. Andral Kilmer, MD. In

15:43

fact, Andral's image appeared on

15:46

all product packaging as well as

15:48

labels, books, trading cards, and other

15:51

promotional materials. The

15:53

distribution of his products became so widespread,

15:55

some claimed his face was more recognizable

15:57

than that of the President of the

15:59

United States. States. True or

16:01

not? Who knows? Could be. In

16:04

addition to his likeness, all the

16:06

Kilmer products had an outline of its

16:08

intended use on its bottle. And

16:10

what we mean by that is glass

16:13

bottles of swamp root, kidney, liver,

16:15

and bladder cure, for instance, featured

16:17

an embossed kidney on each container.

16:21

In 1882, a fire destroyed

16:24

the original Kilmer factory. The Kilmer

16:27

brothers rebuilt, and in just a few

16:29

years, the new eight-story plant in Binghamton

16:31

was filling more than 2000 bottles

16:34

an hour. The economic impact

16:36

on the area was significant,

16:38

too. The new, larger

16:40

factory employed hundreds of people in

16:43

the city. But

16:46

then, in 1892, Jonas ousted Andral, and some

16:48

suggest that

16:51

he may likely have swindled his brother out

16:54

of the business. However, it

16:56

really went down. He bought out

16:58

Andral and brought his own son,

17:00

Willis, fresh out of Cornell University

17:02

on as marketing director. And

17:05

when Willis joined the company, he embraced

17:07

the idea of mass marketing to make

17:09

his uncle's name and remedies a nationally

17:11

known brand. When asked

17:13

what swamp root was good for, he

17:15

famously answered, quote, about a

17:18

million dollars a year. By 1895,

17:20

the Kilmer company product

17:24

line had grown and consisted of 18 patent

17:27

medicines. None of the new

17:29

products were created by Andral, and none,

17:31

as you can guess, were worth spending

17:33

your money on. Willis took

17:35

control of the company in 1912 when

17:38

his father, Jonas, died. Now,

17:40

we've talked at length this season

17:43

about how certain popular medicines manufactured

17:45

by the Kilmers and by others that are

17:47

in the same game claimed

17:50

to be remedies for anything

17:52

and everything from dandruff to

17:54

cancer and sometimes both. Patent

17:57

medicines were popular, period, but they were

17:59

a especially popular among pioneers

18:01

traveling westward during the American expansion

18:03

in the mid to late 1800s.

18:08

These were people and families leaving

18:10

cities, leaving behind civilized society,

18:12

and they did not know if they

18:14

would have access to the care of

18:16

a medical doctor, even one

18:19

with dubious credentials or even a

18:21

druggist. Traveling west

18:23

was a very dangerous adventure. Coincidentally,

18:26

it happened at the same time

18:28

early mass marketing of patent medicines

18:31

was beginning on the east coast.

18:34

And Americans who were looking for something

18:36

to help ease the uncertainty of their

18:38

health as they crossed the United States

18:40

often brought along an assortment of

18:43

various patent medicines. Swamp

18:45

root was an important part

18:47

of many kits, not for

18:49

its advertised laxative properties necessarily.

18:52

People often used it as an antiseptic,

18:55

an important product to have for infection

18:57

control when you're in the wild west

18:59

for sure. In

19:02

contrast to those families, the

19:04

Kilmer family lived on a

19:06

palatial estate in Binghamton, New

19:08

York. They had four

19:10

mansions and eventually owned a

19:12

lodge, a yacht, and a

19:15

stable of racehorses, including

19:17

Kentucky Derby winner Exterminator. And

19:20

they could thank the overwhelming sales

19:22

of Andrall's swamp root for those

19:24

trappings. The Depression of the 1890s,

19:27

which was caused by several factors

19:30

converging at once in the country,

19:32

didn't really put a dent in

19:34

their sales, nor did growing unemployment

19:36

in the wake of nationwide business

19:38

failures diminish their profits. And

19:40

that was lucky for them, but

19:43

not so lucky for the city's

19:45

residents they employed. When

19:47

sales numbers did fall slightly,

19:50

Jonas and Willis, unfortunately,

19:52

chose to take the difference out

19:54

of their employees' pay, allowing

19:56

the company then to continue to bottle and

19:59

package products for the company. without any impact.

20:02

And when it came to lowering pay, one

20:04

more thing caught our eye. Everyone

20:06

took a hit, but women

20:08

were penalized the most. Records

20:10

note female employees had been making

20:13

10 cents per every 1,000 units

20:15

bottled at the factory before 1895,

20:19

but after only seven cents

20:22

per 1,000 units. As

20:25

the peak patent medicine days

20:27

wound down, Swamproot actually held

20:29

strong. Well, eventually the Pure Food

20:32

and Drug Act of 1906 forced

20:34

the company to change the wording on

20:36

their products as they had banned the

20:38

use of the word cure on bottles

20:40

or advertising in the United States. Swamproot,

20:43

with its revised labeling, was still

20:45

on the market into the mid

20:47

20th century, roughly until

20:50

the 1940s after the Second World War.

20:53

After Willis's death in 1940, his

20:55

second wife, Sarah Jane Wells, sold

20:58

the rights to make and

21:00

manufacture Swamproot to Medtech Laboratories

21:02

of Cody, Wyoming. We're

21:05

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21:07

our sponsors, but this isn't the end of the

21:09

Kilmer story. When we're back,

21:12

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21:14

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back to Criminalia. Let's

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not forget Andral, the real doctor who

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started this whole story. Shortly

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before Andral sold his interest in Kilmer

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& Co. to Jonas, he

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was already scouting for the right

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place to start another company. And

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he found it... Adriana...? Adriana...

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The buildings were fitted with every

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modern convenience of the time, including

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things like electric lighting, steam, heaters

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and elevators. But what

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made the property perfect for him

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was that there was a sulfophosphate

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spring on the grounds. Soaking

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in or drinking the mineral water of

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these alleged healing springs was believed to

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be a cure for everything

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from rheumatism to obesity to

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skin ailments and asthma. Think

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of the longest list of health conditions

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you can, and these springs were going

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to heal every single item on your

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list. There were

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also ten other springs on

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the property. A few to

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mention included the blue lithium,

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red iron, black magnetic, and

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ferromanganese. In addition,

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sulfur, Turkish, Russian, and electric

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baths were used all year

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round. Andra

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began formally treating cancer patients in

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the 1890s, both

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at the sanitarium outside the city, and

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also what was known as the cancer

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thorium, which he'd built at 254 Conklin

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Avenue in Binghamton. Andral's

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son Ulysses was employed as

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associate superintendent, and his daughter

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Edith was the librarian. Another

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of the Kilmer brothers, Andrew, quit

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his successful career as an educator

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to work in the business office

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of the sanitarium and hydrotherapium. Later,

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he would become the assistant superintendent.

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Andral advertised his cancer cure nationally and

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offered to pay train fare to the

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sanitarium for anyone who would commit to

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a stay of three to six months.

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This wasn't a quick treatment. Also,

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remember, the D&H was super convenient and

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close to the sanitarium, so this would

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have been a good perk to get

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patients to his facility. And

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he attracted patients with his homeopathic

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approach to treating cancer. His

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method is not too surprising, though.

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We talked about his education in

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both conventional and homeopathic medicine earlier

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in the episode, and

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his practice involved a controlled diet,

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but the hard hitter was treatment with

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the different springs. He

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administered a medicine as well, but we

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have no record of an ingredients list.

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It was supposed to expel the

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cancer from the body after ongoing

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treatment. If you had an

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ulcerating cancer, for instance, which is when a

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tumor breaks through the skin, allegedly,

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this medicine would cause that tumor

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to fall off. He

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did not use radium, x-rays,

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or surgeries for two main

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reasons. First, he considered

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those treatments injurious to the patient.

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And second, he felt those treatments

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could cause some cancers to actually

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spread or become difficult to treat.

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Doctors practicing traditional medicine of

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the time, not homeopathy, considered

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Andral's former ties to proprietary

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medicine to be suspicious. And

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because of it, they did not support

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his cancer facility or his practices. They

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called his methods dubious. And

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though he was a well-educated

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physician and surgeon who had

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gotten out of the patent

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medicine game, they began to

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ridicule him for not performing surgeries

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as they would have performed, or

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daring to use techniques on his

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patients that weren't conventional treatment techniques.

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Despite how his peers saw him,

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his patients, its well-reported, held

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him and his cancer treatments

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in high regard. While

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we don't know how effective those therapies

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actually were, he was clearly

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serious about the care his patients

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received. In fact, we know

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he was giving treatments just three days before

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he died at his home in 1924. Awwww.

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So that is- Andral. Andral. Would

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you like a little sip of something cozy to

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cure what ails you? Yes,

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as long as it's not

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some sort of off-brand Dr.

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Kilmer's female cancer infection. Welllllllll!

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You can't make that promise. I'll try it

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anyway. Not entirely. You'll

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see. In

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the ingredients list that we read of what

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was in the swamp root

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treatment, of course I fixated on

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cinnamon and sugar. And I got

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to thinking about those flavors and how they're

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often, like cinnamon in particular is often used

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in autumnal drinks. But we are

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in the middle, not even the middle, we're at the

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early stages of what seems like a

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brutal summer here in the Northern Hemisphere. And

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I thought, what if we could figure out a drink

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that had those flavors, but

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it was a good summer sip. You

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could also sip it in autumn, but

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it is made as an

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iced, light drink. And I

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got to thinking about another thing associated with summer,

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at least in the US, and that is apple

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pie. I love these warm spices.

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I can't wait. The spices already sounding great.

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We're going to make something refreshing and

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not too warm. I will also say

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that I'm going to pull back the

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curtain on criminilia for a minute because

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we had to last minute move our

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recording this week. And I had

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made a drink for it that we would have

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talked about if we recorded a couple of days

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ago, but I was never 100%

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happy with it. And I'm

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glad we ended up delaying

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because I got to re-workshop it and now

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I like it heaps. It

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wasn't bad at all, but it wasn't what I

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wanted. And now it has come out in the

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end. And now it's, I

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think, a more appropriate and delicious drink

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for what we're doing here today. Excellent.

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So into your shaking tin, you will put

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a half ounce

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of simple syrup, a

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quarter of an ounce, just a little dobble

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doo ya, of cinnamon liqueur. That

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can be something like a gold slager, but if you

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have a cinnamon liqueur without gold flakes, the flakes make

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no difference on this one. Three

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quarters of an ounce of lemon juice and

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an ounce and a half. of like

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a good dark spiced rum. And

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then to that, you're also going to

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add three ounces of apple juice. I

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always suggest a low sugar apple juice

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because otherwise it gets overwhelming and cloying.

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And then you will shake

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that and get it nice and cold.

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Before you strain it over ice,

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you're gonna take your serving

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glass, dip one half

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of the rim in water

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or lemon juice, and then into a mix

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of cinnamon and sugar. The reason you're only

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doing half of the glass, if you are

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making this just for yourself and you know

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you love cinnamon and sugar, dip the whole

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thing, that's fine. But I have started, and

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I know a lot of other folks that

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make drinks and even places that serve alcohol

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as like their business has started

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doing like a half rim. And

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that's because not everybody wants the

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stuff that's on the rim. Some people just like

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to take a sip of the drink. That's my

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little thing. Cinnamon and sugar, throw in your ice,

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strain your drink over that. So

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good and refreshing. It tastes

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like summer, but I bet if we were sitting here in

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October, I would be like, this tastes like autumn. Sprinkle

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a little cinnamon on top if you

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wanna give it a little more cinnamonosity,

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a cinnamontorium. That's the

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manufacturing plant where we make this beverage. Yes,

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and it's just delightful. And I'm just

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calling this sugared swamp root. Sort of

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an imitation of swamp root, but it's

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its own thing. Also, if you

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wanna make the mocktail here, since we're doing a

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dark spiced rum, this is

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one where I would suggest subbing

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that out with, I

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would do like a chai

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tea. Spicy, yummy,

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warmed, not

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warm to the temperature you're gonna cool it,

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but warm in terms of its flavor profile

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tea. If you want to

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give that a little more body, you can also drop

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a little bit of like a white grape juice in

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there, but I think with the apple juice, you don't

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have to do that. So in that

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case, it would be the exact... same, you're

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just using an ounce and a half of

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a brewed and then cooled chai to throw

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in there. Delicious. And

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then you can have sugared swamp root all

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the time. Also, obviously, in that case, if

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you're doing a mocktail, you're not going to

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use cinnamon liquor. You'll just use a little

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dollop of cinnamon syrup, whatever delights you if

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you have some on hand. Easy

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to make. Throw your sugar and your water

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in a pan with a few cinnamon sticks.

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Let that simmer for a bit. Cool off and

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strain. You got cinnamon syrup. Easy peasy. I'm

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going to drink these all summer long. I

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know that recently I was like, oh, this drink sounds like

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it's going to whatever. I forget which episode it was, but

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the drink inspired me to say such

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things as this might be my favorite drink of

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the season, but we'll see. And now

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I have this drink in competition.

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I'm just going to say if we

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had recorded two days ago, that would

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not have been the case. But

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we didn't. And now we have a level of

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numbers. Something's changed. Originally, this thing had like a

32:56

heavy cream topper on it. And it was a

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there were different ingredients and it was fine,

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but it wasn't quite what I wanted. You

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and your patent medicine drink ingredients list. I

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can't keep them straight. Can't

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do it. Can't do it. We hope

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if you make this, that you find it a

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delightful sip, whether in its alcoholic

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or non-alcoholic version. We are so thankful

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that you spent this time with us

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talking about Andrall and his brother and

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their various sons and all of

33:24

the family drama. And we will be right here

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next week again with a tale of snake oil

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