Lilek's scan of a 1920s ad promotes JAD Salts as a weight loss method. (I love the commentary)
How did they work? I was able to find a recipe, but I'm unsure as to whether they'd induce diarrhea or vomiting or (most likely) both:
Jad Salts. Contains sodium phosphate, sodium and potassium bicarbonates, citric and tartaric acids with a small amount of hexamethylene tetramine. (Wiley's 1001 Tests).I'd like to know more about the weight loss methods of the 1920s. Was purging socially acceptable?
Sodium phosphate is used as part of some colonoscopy preps. So yeah, JAD would have worked by giving the user a chronic case of the runs.
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