Advertiser - stand entertainment is nothing young . Since medieval multiplication , mass could see gratuitous entertainment right in their hometown as long as they listened to a sales sales pitch for dubious curative along with the telling , saltation , and side show play . Sales of ophidian oil and other patent medicines paid for the show and then some . Likeother formsof trip amusement , the medical specialty show lost its brilliancy when people hit the opportunity to go see movies instead . The medicine show had one last hurrah during the twentieth century in the form of Hadacol .
LeBlanc run into some trouble with the FDA over the letters patent medicines he was selling in 1941 . Rather than deal with defending mathematical product that were n’t all that profitable , he stopped do Dixie Dew Cough Syrup and Happy Day Headache Powders . Then he came up with something better . The tale LeBlanc told was that he was suffering from infliction in his big toe , and the only Dr. who could avail him would n’t share the formula for the medicine he used . So LeBlanc steal some from an inattentive nurse and explore the factor on the recording label . From that information , he developed Hadacol . The name was inadequate for Happy Day Company , with an L for LeBlanc . However , many years subsequently when someone askedhow he nominate the drug , LeBlanc said " Well , I hadda call it something . "
Hadacol was a mixture of vitamins B1 and B2 , iron , niacin , calcium , phosphoric , honey , and diluted hydrochloric acid in 12 % alcohol . The alcoholic beverage content was n’t all that high , but the hydrochloric dot mean it wasdelivered through the eubstance fasterthan it would be otherwise . The mixture really made people sense better , although it was n’t a cure for the many disease it was advertised for : high line of descent insistency , ulcer , strokes , asthma attack , arthritis , diabetes , pneumonia , genus Anemia , cancer , epilepsy , gall stone , nitty-gritty worry , and hay fever . And that was only the commencement .
