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Slide 35

Slide #35: Although they did not admit it, the proprietors of Boschee's German Syrup included morphine in their formula, and thus it did offer some measure of relief for coughs and colds and possibly even tuberculosis. In a card published in the late 1880s they stated that 500,000 bottles of their August Flower had been sold in one year without recording a single failure to cure dyspepsia.



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