Claim: Robert A. Chesebrough, the inventor of Vaseline, ate a spoonful of petroleum jelly every day until he died at age 96, and once cured himself of pleurisy by having a nurse cover his body in Vaseline. Rating: About this rating Mixture What's True Shortly before petroleum jelly inventor Chesebrough died in 1933, at the age of 96, he publicly claimed to ingest "more than a teaspoon" of Vaseline daily. In 1865, Chesebrough filed the first of several patents for methods for purifying petroleum into petroleum jelly, which he began selling under the brand name Vaseline in 1870. Chesebrough died in 1933 at 96. Chesebrough died in September of the same year, several months after the letter was published.

Source: New York Times July 05, 2024 05:02 UTC