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Booze Restores Vigor, Nine Of 10 Charlatans Agree

Drink Burdock Blood Bitters to settle your stomach, calm your nerves, restore youthful vigor — and maybe get a little bit tipsy. These bitters, like many tonics of the time, contained up to 20 percent alcohol. (Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine)
Drink Burdock Blood Bitters to settle your stomach, calm your nerves, restore youthful vigor — and maybe get a little bit tipsy. These bitters, like many tonics of the time, contained up to 20 percent alcohol. (Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine)

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