No Date, before 1910 - A "quack" selling seneca oil

 

Seneca Oil was another term used for "snake oil". Snake oil has origins in China, and was a term generally used to insinuate false medicines. The Senaca were a tribe of Native American Indians who often used petroleum based oils, but were also known to use rattlesnake oils.

 

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