fiat luxemburg
“Just as our medical quacks have claimed”

keyholez:

[…]As a concentrated source of EPA, snake oil is a credible anti-inflammatory agent and might indeed confer therapeutic benefits. Since essential fatty acids are known to absorb transdermally, it is not far-fetched to think that inflamed skin and joints could benefit by the actual anti-inflammatory action of locally applied oil just as the Chinese physicians and our medical quacks have claimed.[…]

Richard A. Kunin, MD
2698 Pacific Ave
San Francisco, CA 94115

From the Western Journal of Medicine, August 1989.

Admit that you’re pretty disappointed there’s not vitamin D in there.