In the 1830s, Americans bought tomato ketchup as medicine after a physician claimed tomatoes could treat indigestion and

When doctors started prescribing tomatoes instead of medicine

Dr. John Cook Bennett, physician and promoter of the tomato. Public Domain

How tomato pills became America's latest medical craze

An advertisement for Dr. Phelps’ Tomato Pills, from the em Burlington Free Press /em , November 23, 1838. Library of Co author

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