EPISODE · Nov 11, 2025 · 4 MIN

Patent medicines "cured" anything

from Echoes of Elgin: Timeless Tales from the Elgin History Museum · host Elgin History Museum

Do you have freckles, premature old age or diptheria? Better get yourself a bottle of patent medicine. I would go with the one made in Elgin. Let Mike Alft prescribe you a remedy in this echo from April 19, 1982.

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