Saturday, July 26, 2008

Guatemalan Patent Medicine

When I was in the Totonicapan market this morning, I heard a couple of
gentleman shouting the benefits of their "natural remedies." I got a
kick out of the fact that one such product was being advertised as good
for "headaches, colic, anger, and fear..." among other things. It
doesn't take too many visits to New England county fairs (or the
Rockland, Maine Lobsterfest) to know that this sort of thing is alive
and well in the states, as well.

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