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How tomato ketchup was used as a medicinal cure for diarrhea, liver damage

  In the 1830s, Dr. John Cook Bennett promoted tomato ketchup as a medicinal cure for issues like indigestion, diarrhea, and liver damage. The Ohio-based physician decided to turn it into so-called “tomato pills,” which he then sold as a medical breakthrough after the novelty of tomatoes wore off and …

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