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Headliner - A Quaker Doctor Who Sells You Nose Medicine
The term snake oil salesman is a common term for like somebody who sells bogus medicine. John Brinkley toured around pretending to be a Quaker doctor and his wife Sally, not even bothering with the divorce in order to pursue medical career. A man wearing a cowboy costume got on stage and started strangling dozens of rattlesnakes to death and collecting the liquid that oozed out of them. That's literally where the term snakeOil Salesman comes from.