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Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
Bodi-Tone Company
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Description area
Dates of existence
active 1912-1913
History
Bodi-Tone Company was a quackery "cure all" mail-order medicine company that advertised and sold in Canada (from their location at 142 Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontario) and in the USA (from their location at Hoyne & North Aves., Chicago, Illinois). Bodi-Tone Company medicine was meant to restore good health with its many "curative powers" to men, women, and children experiencing any aches, pains, tiredness or illness such as rheumatism, lumbago, dyspepsia, Indigestion, liver complications, weak kidneys, constipation, malaria, flu, eczema, anaemia, and nervous breakdown. According to promotional material, the company president went by the name of Sidney S. David.