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The AMA called it "Baby Killers" in 1911. The syrup sold for nineteen more years
The AMA called it "Baby Killers" in 1911. The syrup sold for nineteen more years
Mothers trusted a small glass bottle whose tender label promised relief for teething infants, and the American Medical Association later printed a headline calling the product "Baby Killers" - yet the syrup continued to sell for nineteen more years. How did condemnation fail to produce removal, and what does that gap reveal about the limits of medical regulation?
In this episode, we trace the story of Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup and the regulatory architecture that could not force its recall, then follow the…
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