When tomato ketchup was sold as medicine in 1830s America
In the 1830s, Dr John Cook Bennett suggested that tomatoes had medicinal properties for treating digestive issues. This led to the creation of tomato extract pills sold as medicine by various entrepreneurs. The competition between manufacturers Archibald Miles and Dr Guy R. Phelps became known as the Tomato Pill War…
Reported by The Times of India. We will add other newspapers as they cover it.
How the newspaper covers this story
When tomato ketchup was sold as medicine in 1830s America
In the 1830s, Dr John Cook Bennett suggested that tomatoes had medicinal properties for treating digestive issues. This led to the creation of tomato extract pills sold as medicine by various entrepreneurs. The competition between manufacturers Archibald Miles and Dr Guy R. Phelps became known as the Tomato Pill War…
