The perfect gift for the little women? or maybe that should be the big women!

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[Alexander]

It is amazing that was actually a popular remedy.

[Dan Leavens]

Alexander I love the marketing slogan " sanitized tape worms"
I wonder just how many people actually thought that these would be okay to consume.

Dano Calgary,Alberta Canada

[Alexander]

We don't use tapeworms therapeutically anymore, but leeches and maggots are grown under sterile conditions for medicinal purposes.

http://www.livescience.com/health/050419_maggots.html

[Dan Leavens]

Yes I ama ware of this with the modern medicine and certain situations. The poster looked like early circa 1900 and I wonder whether they were sold on the old medicine, carnival thing.

Dano Calgary,Alberta Canada