Here’s One Way To Fight Fatigue

In the early 1900s, you could buy all kinds of hormone-based tonics claiming to cure everything from cancer to constipation. A meat-packing company, for instance, sold the key ingredients for the hormone supplement “Glanoid Multigland Liquor” (see below). The remedy contained a slurry of liquefied ovaries, thyroids, and pituitaries (a brain gland)–all the stuff they presumably couldn’t sell to butchers. It was called a liquor, which sounds more cocktail than cure, but the bottle said it helped with problematic menstrual cycles (too heavy or too few) and also for chlorosis (19th century medical jargon for being really tired)