The Origins of Ear Candling

John french did not invent a cure for deafness bummer yeah that was uh pretty permanent i don't think anyone's quite cracked that code. When the chinese american population started to kind of boom in the united states a lot of these traditional remedies were brought with them. This is where we see the evolution toward the current definition of snake oil there's a guy named richard white he wrote a book called railroaded and it's all about the thousands and thousands of chinese nationals who immigrated to the u.s between 1849 and 1882 an estimated 180 thousand people.