Ypsilanti’s water: If it smelled bad, it was good for you
Once upon a time, mineral water was viewed as the magic elixir for just about everything that ails people. Late in the 19th Century Ypsilanti’s mineral water helped make it a center for this type of treatment.
More than 100 years ago if
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Beginning in the 1880s and continuing into the early years of the 20th century,
Mineral water was seen as a treatment for just about every illness. Proponents claimed mineral water treatments could cure cancer, alcoholism and nervous disorders and it was said to be especially good for treating “women’s trouble.”
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