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The tonic was reportedly an "old Indian remedy for blood poison". The company became one of the wealthiest patent medicine concerns in the country, and South. South. South. had been introduced into every "nook and corner" of the United States. His mansion at the 215 Capitol Avenue (Northwest corner of Crumley Street) in the then-affluent Washington-Rawson neighborhood was later used as the Piedmont Sanitorium, which would become Piedmont Hospital. The Washington-Rawson neighborhood was razed in the early 1960s to make way for Atlanta Fulton County Stadium and its parking lots.
Now the site is part of the large Turner Field parking lot.
