Episode 124: To Die For
Lore
Aaron Mahnke
4.6 • 46.9K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Everyone wants to look good. And while there's nothing wrong with beauty, sometimes people have made sacrifices—both willing and unaware—in the pursuit of it. After looking through the pages of history, though, that hasn't always been a good thing.
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| 0:00.0 | The claims were extraordinary. |
| 0:17.0 | It would chase away your problems, make all your dreams come true, and fix the things |
| 0:22.0 | that you didn't even know were wrong. |
| 0:24.4 | It was the sort of thing you might find in an Instagram ad, except this item was on the |
| 0:28.7 | market over a century ago. |
| 0:32.1 | Dr. James P. Campbell had created the magic pill. |
| 0:35.4 | It was a wafer that claimed to target all those pesky skin conditions that folks wanted |
| 0:39.8 | to get rid of. |
| 0:41.1 | Blackheads, redness, dry patches, and even freckles. |
| 0:45.2 | But it offered more, according to the ad that ran in newspapers around 1890. |
| 0:51.0 | Dr. Campbell's complexion wafer were supposed to smooth out facial disfigurements and soften |
| 0:56.2 | harsh angles. |
| 0:57.5 | It promised to lift your spirits, help your appetite, and clear up any painful rheumatism |
| 1:02.3 | that might be troubling you. |
| 1:03.9 | Headaches, hay fever, indigestion, you name it. |
| 1:07.7 | Dr. Campbell's complexion wavers could do it all. |
| 1:11.3 | Except, you know the truth, right? |
| 1:13.8 | There are no magic pills. |
| 1:15.5 | No silver bullets guaranteed to solve our problems. |
| 1:18.6 | No easy fixes to the cards we've been dealt. |
| 1:21.3 | Yes, a lot of those conditions or issues can be helped, but today we know just how expensive |
| 1:26.8 | and complicated it is to do that. |
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