hostetter's was mostly alcohol and was even sometimes sold by the glass in saloons. many patent medicine makers claimed they could cure anything and replaced doctors, but people also use patent medicines in addition to regular medicine the way one might buy over the counter cough syrup today. there were no laws limiting some drugs to prescription only until the 20th century. so all of the options were over the counter at the time. the specific bottle of hostetter is in my book is in the museum of the rockies in montana. when the car while the company started in pittsburgh hostetter's was often marked to travelers and people moving to territory unknown to them during the us conquest of the people and land to the west. advertisements highlighted the likelihood of gastrointestinal distress on these journeys at the time both regular medicine and popular understanding believe that putrid air could cause disease traveling would make it hard to see a doctor if indeed a doctor could be helpful. woe to him who encounters the malaria of a tropical seaboard or the miasma of a w

the proposed solution, naturally, was hostetter's bidders as a daily preventative. next slide, please. thank you. a patent medicine i mentioned only briefly in the book but i want to discuss here because of a local connection is lydia hostetter's -- in part because the advertisement featured a real woman who was its founder. also intended to be specifically for women's health. in this era, women were seen as the guardians of their family's health, particularly their children's. but their own health was often an afterthought. for much of the 19th century, women were very literally consider the weaker. sex and many women's health issues were dismissed as being inevitable parts of the condition of womanhood. we see echoes of this today even though the science behind these ideas has been discredited. lydia pinkham's vegetable compound was marketed for female complaints. the list of ailments it purported to cure include difficult or painful menstruation, menopausal issues and uterine tumors. but also depression, sleeplessness, general debility and again nervous prosecuti

be with thank you so much for dr. hostetter. and as a phoebe was just saying hong kong 0 corporate policy hasn't just taken a toll on human beings. it's also having a huge impact on the embodiment here's why. ah, from the moment you step off the plane in hong kong, there's people wearing plastic everywhere you look i and once you've collected your luggage and are taken to a quarantine hotel, there's even more plastic or the kind of services that typically would touch your hands like a say, you know the child and everything's been santa fe wrapped, every single one of the staff members here was so p, you know, the gowns, the glass, the teeth, the hats, and not every staff member. and on every school. the toiletries provided by the hotel come double wrapped in plastic, and the food is also no exception. the meals arrive 3 times a day. so morning lunch, dinner. and they are all an provided in a plastic bag, which begs the question, what to do with all that extra plastic waste generated by the pandemic. much of it ends up in one of

i'm just slight change of subject or your it but, but, but news reaching hostetter rushes gas from is halting, a gas supplies to poland. barbara your mouth pipeline. what did we make of her? well, it gasp room is going to completely suspend to gas supplies to pollen from april 27th or so polished companies received a letter from gasper on the about the complete suspension of supplies under the sky mile contract jamal contract. previously, poland refused to pay for russian gas supplies with mandatory conversation into rubles. this of course is a bad sign, not only for poland because gas, brown forest, not only poland, but all western countries to pay for gas in roubles. as far as we know, germany was able to supposedly agree on payment in euro's as, as t melissa related to an, in the contract. as for poland, it was stated that this was a break of contract by gas prom. and so no matter how the situation develops further, phil, this is of course, a clear threat to other western countries that star dw re rochette. so speaking to me earlier, and since we spoke, bo gary of energy ministry h