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The turkey shootin'

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Illustrated booklet with a poem about a turkey shoot advertising the Swift Specific Company's old indian recipe, S.S.S. which was supposed to cure scrofula, indolent ulcers, rheumatism, skin cancer (which "is a form of blood poison") and blood poisoning as well as being a spring tonic and encourage a clear complexion by curing acne. S.S.S. stood for: Swift's Syphilitic Specific. Syphilis itself was referred to as "contagious blood poison" by the company. There is a warning about using mercury for therapeutic purposes.

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