Welcome to Erin Mankie's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

The secret was in the recipe.

Angelo Mariani made his concoction in a very special way.

Two ounces of aromatic leaves to every one pint of wine.

That's it.

That was the recipe.

Angelo came up with that deceptively simple formula at the Paris Pharmacy where he worked

as an apprentice, but he wasn't planning to be the understudy for long.

By all accounts, he always had the desire to invent some new medicine that would change

the world and make him very rich in the process.

And you might say that Angelo was one of the lucky ones, because his dream became reality.

He was helped out by a doctor that he knew, one who was looking for medicines that would

help his patients with one of those never-ending complaints of the human body, a sore throat.

He directed his patients to the pharmacy where Angelo worked, and things really hit a high

note when the doctor sent along one patient who needed to take better care of her throat

than most, after all she was an opera singer.

She tried Angelo's experimental new topic, two ounces of aromatic leaves in one pint of

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