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The poem "John Brown's Body" uses "snake oil" to refer to fake medicine for the first time.
Date: 1927
Medical system (Western medicine)
Integrative & complementary medicine
Traditional/folk/cultural medicine
The poem by Stephen Vincent Benet goes like this: "Crooked creatures of a thousand dubious trades ... sellers of snake-oil balm and lucky rings."
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