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When ketchup was sold as medicine in 1830s America
In 1830s America, doctor John Cook Bennett promoted tomatoes as a remedy for digestive problems. Entrepreneurs turned the idea into tomato extract pills, sparking a fierce, newspaper-covered rivalry between competing manufacturers known as the Tomato Pill War.
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