Patent medicine marketed as a vitamin supplement; known for its 12% alcohol content
Old Hadacol box and bottles
Hadacol was a patent medicine marketed as a vitamin supplement. Its principal attraction, however, was that it contained 12 percent alcohol (listed on the tonic bottle's label as a "preservative"), which made it quite popular in the dry counties of the southern United States. It was the product of four-term Louisiana State Senator Dudley J. LeBlanc, a Democrat from Erath in Vermilion Parish in southwestern Louisiana. He was not a medical doctor, nor a registered pharmacist, but had a strong talent for self-promotion. Time magazine once described him as "a stem-winding salesman who knows every razzle-dazzle switch in the pitchman's trade".[1]
^"Medicine: The Mixture As Before". Time. 1951-01-22. ISSN 0040-781X. Archived from the original on November 23, 2010. Retrieved 2018-05-18.
Hadacol was a patent medicine marketed as a vitamin supplement. Its principal attraction, however, was that it contained 12 percent alcohol (listed on...
shows. One of the most famous of the 20th-century traveling shows was the Hadacol Caravan, sponsored by Louisiana State Senator Dudley J. LeBlanc and his...
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help. Williams' career reached a peak in the late summer of 1951 with his Hadacol tour of the U.S. with Bob Hope and other actors. On the weekend after the...
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rare moment of candor) the truth about his signature nostrum, Hadacol: when asked what Hadacol was good for, LeBlanc admitted "about five million dollars...
such obvious charlatans as Dudley J. LeBlanc, promoter of the cure-all Hadacol.[5] Some medical health experts have been critical; for example it has...
2013. Clay, Floyd Martin (1973). Coozan Dudley LeBlanc: from Huey Long to Hadacol. ISBN 978-0-88289-646-5. Retrieved July 12, 2013. "Frank Charles Schwartzenburg...
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plugs" for molasses and the patent medicine Hadacol; ABC agreed to program it only after a reference to Hadacol was removed. CBS banned it entirely, on the...
p. 25-6. Clay, Floyd Martin. Coozan Dudley LeBlanc: From Huey Long to Hadacol. Pelican Publishing Company, 1987. Amenta, Edwin (2006). When Movements...
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legends. He recounted examples of humorous statements by former governors and State Senator Dudley J. LeBlanc, originator of Hadacol patent medicine....
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