61. Windswept: The Pain-Killer Mansion

<p>Have you ever been to Scarborough Beach in Narragansett and noticed that beautiful stone ruin just beyond the sand? Well, it turns out it’s the remnants of an old carriage house that once stood beside this mansion overlooking the water. The mansion was called Windswept, but locally it was known as the house built with Painkiller money, and it was built by a family who made their fortune selling this over-the-counter medicine called “Perry Davis’s Vegetable Pain-Killer,” remembered today as the first-ever nationally advertised remedy for chronic pain.</p><p><i>Want to know more? Check out these other podcasts:</i></p><ul><li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/2G3qmhWe8reqyCc7SRqI8F"><i>Painkiller: America's Fentanyl Crisis | Podcast on Spotify</i></a></li><li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/4hU4nWytNEEo0xvRCueQRO"><i>How The Opioid Industry Operated Like A Cartel - Fresh Air | Podcast on Spotify</i></a></li><li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/3pA5ezN5b9K4nEMt6LysAr"><i>Hooked | Podcast on Spotify</i></a></li></ul><p><i>About Perry Davis’ Pain-Killer:</i></p><ul><li><a href="https://navigator.rihs.org/wp-content/uploads/tainacan-items/3550/13546/199_These-Plantations.pdf">These Plantations | By J. Earl Clauson</a></li><li><a href="http://theusgenweb.org/rigenweb/articles/273.html">History of Providence, Rhode Island - 3</a> - Published 1878 </li><li><a href="https://museumofhealthcare.blog/the-story-of-perry-davis-and-his-painkiller/">The Story of Perry Davis and His Painkiller</a></li><li><a href="https://library.weill.cornell.edu/about-us/snake%C2%A0oil%C2%A0-social%C2%A0media-drug-advertising-your-health/history-drug-advertising">The History of Drug Advertising | Weill Cornell Medicine Samuel J. Wood Library</a></li><li><a href="http://www.twainquotes.com/PerryDavis.html">Mark Twain quotations - Perry Davis Pain-Killer</a></li><li><a href="https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/34/the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer/5441/chapter-12/">Chapter 12 | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain | Lit2Go ETC</a></l