There Used to be "Tomato Pills" People Took as Medicine

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People once took tomato pills as medicine An Ohio doctor named John Cook Bennett told people in the 1800's that tomatoes could help with digestion, jaundice, cholera, diarrhea, and so forth. He went into business with a drug manufacturer to sell "tomato pill" "medicine" to people. He sold hundreds of thousands of bottles until people figured out they could just eat the tomatoes themselves.