'In 1961, at the National Congress on Medical Quackery, the U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare pointed out that, along with actual snake oils and other nostrums, bottled seawater was being sold for up to twenty dollars a gallon as a “panacea for virtually all human ailments.”

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