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Patent medicine bottle collection (Ms.2008.002)

Brown University Library

Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Telephone: Manuscripts: 401-863-3723; University Archives: 401-863-2148
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Inventory

Series 1. Binder of slides

Container Description Date
Binder of Slides
Contents Note: Binder containing slides for the full collection of 242 patent medicine bottles and 11 objects dating from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. The entire collection was donated to Brown University with 212 bottles and 8 objects stored in Special Collections at the John Hay Library (described in this finding aid) and the remaining 30 bottles and 3 objects retained by the Alcohol and Addiction Studies Center and the Alpert Medical School for use as teaching aids.

Series 2. Bottles

Container Description Date
Box 1, Bottle 1 Ayer's Sarsaparilla made in Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
Contents Note: First advertised in 1857 the sarsaparilla was a product of Dr. James C. Ayer, practical and analytical chemist, 84 Central, boards at Merr, House (1849), Lowell, MA, Advertised 1851-1900+, Colds, coughs, hoarseness, influenza, whooping cough, croup, consumption. Testimonials to 1847, Ayer's American Almanacs begun in the early 1850s reached a worldwide audience and printed some 16,000,000-25,000,000 copies annually by the turn of the century. In 1889 the almanac was printed in 21 languages and the bindery was making 10,000 copies a day. Note: Sarsaparilla grows in swamps and hedges in the middle and southern states and its root was used as, a diuretic and the treatment of chronic rheumatism and infections of the skin. But its most extensive and useful application has been found to be in the treatment of secondary and tertiary syphilis and especially in the broken condition of the system which follows the use of mercury in these afflictions. Material for note from Warren's Household Physician which was published from 1859 in seven editions, the last being in 1901. It was the most highly regarded textbook of the period and a major reference book of physicians and medical students.
Physical Description Note: No label appears to be in excellent condition.
circa 1870-1900
Box 1, Bottle 2 Dr. Miles New Heart Cure
Contents Note: A product of Dr. Franklin Miles (1845-1929) was born in Ohio schooled in Massachusetts and New York. He was a practicing physician until 1884 after going to the Chicago Medical Institute. About 1885 he moved to Elkhart, Indiana and founded the Dr. Miles Medical Institute. He was followed in business by his son around the turn of the century after he retired. It was sold shortly thereafter to a partner and eventually became Miles Lab., Inc. best known as the makers of Alka-Seltzer and (ahem) Flintstones children's vitamins. A clip of Dr. Miles Nervine (1954) can be found at http://www.moderntv.com/modtvweb.qtclips/nervine1.mov The Nervine was his best seller but he also was producing Nerve and Liver Pills, Tonic, Sarsaparilla Wine, Restorative Blood Purifier and the New Heart Cure (1905 Pharmaceutical Era) by 1912 the New Heart Cure name was changed to Miles New Heart Remedy to conform with the rules of the 1906 Food & Drug Act. The sample bottles are more common than the full size.
Physical Description Note: No label appears to be in excellent condition.
circa 1900
Box 1, Bottle 3 Indian Vegetable Cough Syrup Blood Purifier
Contents Note: Product of S.B. Golf of Camden, NJ ad: 1890s. S.B. Goff and Sons Co, Leroy, NY (1935) Kemp and Lane Inc., Leroy, NY (1948)
Physical Description Note: No label good condition.
circa 1880-1900
Box 1, Bottle 4 bottle reads "prescribed by R.V. Pierce, MD," Buffalo, NY
Physical Description Note: inside stain, no label
Binder 1, Slide 5 Dr. Herrick's Family Medicine
Contents Note: 60% label bottle reads, "Rennes Pain Killing Oil 79 1/2% alcohol. Clean, safe and reliable. Price .50, St. Louis, Missouri." James T. Ballard, St. Louis, MO produced a line of medicine including Dr. Herrick's medicines (See p 16 of The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines (1905) reprinted articles from A.M.A.). This bottle is the medium size of Rennes Magic Pain Killing Oil. (See also Rennes)
Physical Description Note: Partial label for Renne's Magic Pain Killing Oil
Box 1, Bottle 6 Dr. Hubbard's Vegetable Disinfectant, Deodorizer and Germicide, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Contents Note: Listed 1912 Druggist Circular in half pint, pint, gallon and half gallon sizes.
Physical Description Note: No label
circa 1900+
Box 1, Bottle 7 Syrup of Black Draught
Contents Note: Probably a product of Chattanooga Medicine Co. Dr. Thedford's Black Draught a liver medicine. Used since 1879 Box shows portrait of A.Q. Simmons Trademark files July 5, 1911.
Physical Description Note: No label
circa 1900+
Box 1, Bottle 8 Mother Winslow's Soothing Syrup
Contents Note: Bottle reads "the Anglo-American Drug Company successor to Curtis and Perkins proprietors", Inventor, Jeramiah Curtis & Benjamin A. Perkins, Jeramiah moved from Bangor to NYC (1854); George M. Curtis and Jeremiah 48 Fulton SI (1856); Principal Office No 13 Cedar St.(1858); J. Curtis Jr. joins (1858); Curtis & Brown (1860-1875) (Wilson), NYC, NY, Advertised 1858-59, First sold 1849. Named for Mrs. Charlotte N. Winslow, Jeramiah Curtis' mother-in-law. Contained Morphia sulphate. For teething, sore gums and to regulate the bowel, dysentery, Listed Meyer Bros, & Co. Wholesale Druggist Catalog, (1879); Pharmaceutical Era (1905): Anglo-American Drug Co. 215 Fulton St. NYC, Ad: Cincinnati Daily Gazette, Aug, 8, 1859, Mrs. Winslow's // Soothing Syrup // Curtis & Perkins // Proprietors, aqua, 5 1/8, cylinder, rolled.
Physical Description Note: No label
circa 1890s
Box 1, Bottle 9 Miller's Haynes Genuine Arabian Balsam, E. Morgan and Sons, Providence, Rhode Island
Contents Note: Providence, RI. The balsam was advertised as a cure for Piles, croup, deafness diphtheria. Product was made from cottonseed oil, turpentine and oil of cumin. Late in in its life span it became known as Miller's Hayne's Arabian Balsam. Note: Balsams were taken from the saps of trees and shrubs and invariably diluted with alcohol. Invented by A. Haynes, M.D. South Braintree, MA. Advertised 1860, Bums, poisoning, rheumatism, wounds, pains, dysentery, stoppages or inflammation of the bowels. None genuine without the likeness of the inventor. Price 25 cents. NEBD, 1860. 1916 Druggist Circular.
Physical Description Note: Stained, no label
circa 1900
Box 1, Bottle 10 Rubifoam, for the teeth, Put up by E. W. Hought (Hoyt) and Co., Lowell, Massachusetts
Contents Note: Eli W. Hoyt began as a druggist in Lowell about 1867. He had worked as a clerk before entered the business himself. He and a partner, Freeman B. Shedd (1872). The company grew with the success of two major brands, Hoyt's German Cologne and Rubifoam for the Teeth. Mass marketing began in the 1880s. The product was listed as late as 1935 and probably was sold much later. The company made extensive use of lithograph trade cards to market their product.
Physical Description Note: Some inside stain.
circa 1890-1900
Box 1, Bottle 11 The Store of Quality, Harville Drug Co., Thomasville, North Carolina
circa 1900
Box 1, Bottle 12 Strabmuller's Elixir, bottom of the bottle reads, "tree of life" back of bottle reads, "nectar of the golden life of health and vitality"
Contents Note: This bottle is a reproduction. The bottom marked Wheaton indicates it was blown in Wheaton NJ sometime in the late 1960s or early 1970s. This bottle is known in at least four colors amber, amethyst, blue and green.
circa 1968-1975
Box 1, Bottle 13 Humphrey's Marvel of Healing
Contents Note: Product of Frederick Humphrey, NY contained witch hazel. He trademarked the salve in 1878. (Denver) Sold in three sizes. Humphrey Med. Co., New York, Ad: Trumansburg Free Press (NY) April 13, 1895 (Baldwin) Listed in 6 oz., pint and quart sizes as a product of Humphrey Homeopathic Medicine Co., 156 Williams St. NY (Druggist Circular 1912).
circa 1880-1900
Binder 1, Slide 14 King's Juniper Tar Cough Balsam, George W. Morrison, Co. Clinton, Massachusetts
circa 1880-1900
Binder 1, Slide 15a "Davis" Pain Killer
Contents Note: Perry Davis (1791-1862) & son (Edmund), manufacturers and proprietors. 74 High St. (1849-1860). manufactory at 43 Pond and 72 High (1852), Providence, RI. Perry Davis was a carpenter, when he discovered his formula and began selling the medicine in a basket. His neighbors told him he was foolish to desert his trade. But he never doubted his ability and moved from Fall River MA (some sources say Taunton, MA) about 1843 to Providence, RI and became proprietor of the Vegetable Pain Killer ad was listed "Physician." Edmund ran the business after his father's death.
circa 1890
Box 1, Bottle 16 Dose measuring bottle from the Measuring Appliance Company, Providence, Rhode Island
Contents Note: I was not able to find anything similar in the dozen or so Druggist sundry catalogs I checked from 1888-1915. This is a very unique item and was probably not popular.
Box 1, Bottle 17 Tuttles Elixir, Boston, Massachusetts
circa 1894-1910
Box 1, Bottle 18 Sarsaparilla bottle
Contents Note: Hood's Sarsaparilla
circa 1880-1900
Binder 1, Slide 19 Kilmer's Swamp Root and Bladder Cure, Kidney and Liver
Contents Note: Note: Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root was named for its discoverer who practiced medicine in Binghamton, New York. He was said to have been given the secret formula by local Indians. The promoter of Swamp Root was Dr. Kilmer's nephew, a flamboyant extroverted young man who applied newly developed advertising techniques which sold millions of bottles worldwide. He died a multimillionaire and left five baronial estates in various countries, race horses and several despondent women.
Physical Description Note: This is the small size.
circa 1880-1906
Box 1, Bottle 20 Mexican Mustang Liniment
Contents Note: G. W. Westbrook, originator and sole proprietor, St Louis, Bragg and McLean successor to G.W. Westbrook, Cor. Third & Market (1851) Addison G. Bragg & Co. became sole proprietors, (1852); Addison G. Bragg at 304 Broadway (1852-54), NYC, NY (note: this was Barnes and Park's Address) Barnes & Park, proprietor (1858); Advertised 1852-1858. For rheumatism, sprains, Poll-evils, for people or horses. Put up in three sizes. Price 25 cents, 50 cents and $1.00. Ad in 1854 states some 15 million bottles have been sold. Listed in 1905 Pharmaceutical Era: Lyon's Mtg. Co., 41 S 5th, Brooklyn, NY. See also: McLean's Volcanic, Cincinnati Enquirer Dec 9, 1851. Mexican / Mustang / Liniment (horizontally), aqua, 7 3/8, cylinder, tc, IP or OP; Mexican // Mustang // Liniment (vertically) aqua, 4 1/4 or 5 1/2, cyl rolled; 6 1/4 cylinder, tc.
Physical Description Note: This is the rarest size but the condition is very bad with much inside and outside stain.
circa 1880s
Box 1, Bottle 21 Three Crow Pine and Elm Brand Cough Syrup
Contents Note: 99% label Contains not over 11% alcohol. It is produced by the Atlantic Spice Co., Rockland Maine. The name at the top of the bottle is three Crow shooting Trademark and a picture of three crows.
Physical Description Note: Excellent condition with nice graphic on label.
Binder 1, Slide 22 Cooper's New Discovery
Contents Note: Listed 1905 Pharmaceutical Era by Cooper Medicine Co. 113 East Second, Dayton, OH. He also was selling a medicated soap, New Cough Remedy, New Herb Discovery, Prairie Flower, and Cooper's Quick Relief. Listed 1912 Druggist Circular address on First St., Dayton, OH lists Cooper's Nervine. Listed 1916 (Denver). 1935 by Benjamin Rosenweig, 114 Lawrence St. Brooklyn, NY (Fike)
Physical Description Note: 1900-1916
circa 1900-1916
Box 1, Bottle 23 "Scott's Emulsion" with Lime and soda
Contents Note: From the Journal A.M.A. Oct 13, 1906, 1207. "The introduction of cod-liver oil as a supposedly easily assimilable nutrient and reconstructive was followed by its extensive use in wasting diseases especially in phthisis, in the treatment of which it came to be considered almost essential, as it was supposed to possess some mysterious power different from that of other oils. Its unpalatable character led to various devices to render it tasteless and to make it more acceptable to the stomach. Emulsions containing the oil in mixture with other substances were put on the market and served a useful purpose.
Physical Description Note: Poor condition inside and outside stain.
Binder 1, Slide 24 J.L. Matthieu's Cough Syrup, Marlboro, Massachusetts, formally syrup of tar and cod-liver oil
Contents Note: Listed as Mathieu's Tar and Oil (1914 International Druggist Price Supplement). Listed as Mathieu's Cough Syrup (1935)
circa 1914
Binder 1, Slide 25 OPODELDOC
Contents Note: This is a generic bottle that was used by a number of companies. The medicine was a well known and very old remedy. It would have been brought over from England by the earliest settlers.
circa 1830-1850
Box 1, Bottle 26 Hood's Saponaceous Tooth Powder
Contents Note: A preserver and beautifier for the teeth. Prepared only by C.I. Hood and Co. Lowell, Massachusetts
Physical Description Note: Complete label and stopper.
circa 1890-1900
Box 1, Bottle 27 Kodol for indigestion
Contents Note: It is a pleasant, palatable, agreeable preparation. It tastes good, it tones and nourishes. It makes your stomach feel good. Don't dilute Kodol, take it just as is. Kodol is absolutely free from any opiate, narcotic, or harmful drug. It can be taken with perfect safety. Take a dose whenever you feel the need of it. You can take one teaspoon or two. Kodol is a sure digestant. It is clean, pure, nourishing, enriches the blood, and makes the stomach feel healthy and well. E.C. Dwitt and Co., Chicago and New York, USA.
Physical Description Note: Label and contents.
Box 1, Bottle 28 Dr. J. Hostetters Stomach Bitters
Contents Note: David Hostetter (1819-1888) & George W. Smith (died 1884), J.H. Hostetter (1854); 267 Penn (1852), Pittsburgh, PA, Advertised 1852-1854, David Hostetter, son of Dr. Jacob Hostetter, began the Bitters business with a boyhood friend, George W. Smith when the elder Hostetter retired. David Hostetter was born in 1819 in Lancaster Pa. He started in the dry goods business in Pittsburgh. Struck by gold fever he moved to California where he soon went bust. After he returned to Pittsburgh he took the prescription of his father and built his patent medicine business. Over ten thousand bottles sold during the short time since it was introduced into the city as a Spring Medicine (1854). 100,000 bottles sold in one year (1857); the Hostetter United States Almanac began in 1866. Annual printings ranged from 10 to 13 million copies by the end of the century. When David Hostetter died, his son, David Herbert Hostetter ran the business. He died in 1924. His son, Frederick was president until his death in 1930; then D. Herbert Hostetter, Jr., the last of the line to run the company did so until 1934, when he sold it.
Physical Description Note: No Label, excellent collection.
circa 1870-1890
Binder 1, Slide 29 "Dr. King's New Discovery" the side of bottle reads, "H.E. Bucklen and Company", the opposite side, "Chicago Illinois"
Physical Description Note: Sample size bottle.
circa 1890-1900
Box 1, Bottle 30 Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, Rochester New York
Contents Note: Note: H.H. Warner was the originator of Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure a nostrum of the late 19th Century. Warner was actually a safe salesman with a terrific idea. He promoted a line of remedies with a unique logo — an iron — which became his trademark. One the proceeds of his kidney and liver cure, Warner became an international patron of the arts and a friend of celebrates.
Physical Description Note: No label, some haze.
circa 1886-1900
Binder 1, Slide 31 Mosso's Oil-O-Sol
Contents Note: Company started in 1855 in Dryden, NY by C.A. Mosso. His best known product was his Monarch Liniment. The name might well have been changed later to "Oil-O-Sol." Some confusion is raised by the entry in the 1935 American Druggist Price Book which lists the product as "Oil-O-Sail." This may be a printing error. Listed as C.A. Mosso Laboratories (1935).
Physical Description Note: Includes box, label and contents.
circa 1920-1940
Box 1, Bottle 32 Dr. Hand's Colic Mixture for Wind Colic and Sour Stomach
Contents Note: Product of Hand Medicine Co. of Philadelphia, PA. 1914 International Druggist listed this product as Hand's Colic Cure 1935 American Druggist listed the product as Hand's Colic Remedy.
Physical Description Note: Box, label and some contents.
circa 1940
Box 1, Bottle 33 J. W. Poland, headache killer
Contents Note: DR. J.W. POLAND'S WHITE PINE COMPOUND. Probably James W. Poland; J.W. Poland, Goffstown Centre, NH (1860); proprietor Geo. W. Sweet, M.D. Boston (1865) Concord, NH, Advertised 1865, Baldwin lists J.W. Poland's Diarrhoea Elixir (1868), Headache Killer (1856) and Indian Pile Remedy (1868), Listed Meyer Bros, & Co. Wholesale Druggist Catalog, 1879; Pharmaceutical Era, 1905 New England Business Directory 1860, Dr. J.W. Poland's / White Pine / Compound, aqua, 6 5/8, oval sc, Also 1869 ad listed J.W. Poland, Humor Doctor
Physical Description Note: Price quoted assumes bottle is smooth based.
circa 1856-1860
Binder 1, Slide 34 Hiawatha Restorative, on side of the bottle, "minehaha"
Contents Note: HOYT'S HIAWATHA HAIR RESTORATIVE, Joseph Hoyt (1860); Joseph Hoyt & Co. (1864), 20 Hanover (1860); 10 University Place (1864), Boston, MA, Advertised 1861. To restore faded and gray hair. It is possible Hoyt purchased this brand about 1860, listed 1885 McKesson & Robbins Catalog (Fadely), Minehaha / Hiawatha // Hair // Restorative / Mudjekee Wis, 6 3/4, rectangular
Physical Description Note: Price quoted assumes bottle is smooth based.
circa 1860
Box 1, Bottle 35 Dr. S. A. Tuttle, Boston, MA
Physical Description Note: No label.
circa 1910
Box 1, Bottle 36 Atwood's jaundice Bitters, formally made by Moses Atwood, Georgetown, MA
Contents Note: Moses Carter & Son, successors to Moses Atwood, Georgetown, MA Moses Carter listed (1860), He acquired partial rights to the Bitters in 1855 and sold it through 1875; John F. Henry, Manhattan Med. Co, NYC proprietor (1877); Atwood's Bitter's, Hall & Ruckel, 215 Washington, NYC (1905), Atwood's Quinine Tonic Bitters, Gilman Bros. 50 Franklin St. Boston MA, Pharmaceuticals Era, (1905). New England Business Directory 1860, Atwood's // Jaundice Bitters // M. Carter & Son // Georgetown // Mass. aqua 6 1/8, 12 sided, sc.
Physical Description Note: No label.
circa 1910
Box 1, Bottle 37 C. B. Rogers and Company, Apothecaries, Jamaica Plain
Contents Note: The bottle is a generic prescription bottle caused "Philadelphia Oval" with a slug plate. Thousands of druggists produced such bottles.
Physical Description Note: No label.
circa 1880-1910
Box 1, Bottle 38 William E. Clarke, Pharmacist, Providence, Rhode Island
Physical Description Note: No label.
circa 1880-1910
Box 1, Bottle 39 Dr. D. Jayne's Tonic, Vermifuge, 242 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
Contents Note: Dr. David Jayne, inventor and sole proprietor, Advertised 1838, For sour stomach, fever and ague, tapeworms, indigestion, price 50 cents (1838), listed in Robert Stevenson & Co, Wholesale Druggist Catalog (1888), Listed Druggist Circular (1915). Dr. D. Jayne & Son, 242 Chestnut, Philadelphia. See also: Jayne's Expectorant, Jayne's Carminative, Ad: Saturday Evening Post Nov. 10. 1838, Dr. D. Jayne's // Tonic Vermifuge // 84 Chestnut St. Phila, aqua, 4 13/16, oval, rolled, sc, flared; Dr. D. Jayne's // Tonic // Vermifuge // Philad.a, aqua, 5 /14, square, flared (This is the older of the two)
Physical Description Note: No label.
circa 1870-1900
Box 2, Bottle 40a Piso's Cure, (on one side of the bottle) "for consumption", (on the other side) Hazeltine and Company
Contents Note: From the Great American Fraud, Piso Consumption Cure, extensively advertised a year or two ago (two years prior to 1905), is apparently withdrawing from the field, so far as consumption goes and the Piso people are now more modestly promising to cure coughs and colds. Old analyses give as the contents of the Piso's Cure for Consumption, alcohol, chloroform, opium, and cannabis indica (hasheesh). Company established, 1872.
Physical Description Note: No label, some haze.
circa 1880-1906
Box 2, Bottle 41 Glovers Imperial Mange Remedy, H. Clay Glover Company, New York
Contents Note: This variant has oz. Embossed
Physical Description Note: No label.
circa 1906-1915
Box 2, Bottle 42 Cabot's lujiho-napthol, Boston, Massachusetts
Physical Description Note: No label, stain.
circa 1870-1900
Box 2, Bottle 43 Kendall's Spavin Cure for human flesh
Contents Note: Product invented by W.A. Kendall, physician in Enosburgh Falls, VT (1850-1870s). Benjamin J. Kendall first bottled the medicine about 1876. The product moved into the national spotlight under the management of Henry D. Kendall who took over in 1881. An amber variant which is very common was for animals and the aqua bottle for humans.
Physical Description Note: No label, stain.
circa 1880-1906
Binder 1, Slide 44 S. A. Tuttle, Boston, Massachusetts
Contents Note: Probably a later variant of a similar bottle embossed: Tuttle's Elixir Co. Boston, Mass, Samuel A. Tuttle, operated a stable in 1883 and was proprietor of Tuttle's Elixir in 1885. Billed as a product for man or beast. The Tuttle Elixir company was established in 1894 and operated until 1968 (Fike)
Physical Description Note: No label.
circa 1910
Box 2, Bottle 45 Minard's Liniment, Boston
Contents Note: 1886 Minard's Liniment Mfg. Co. Boston, MA. 1900 Minard's Liniment Mfg. Co. S. Framingham, MA, 1916 internal and external use for rheumatism, pleurisy, quinsy, tonsillitis and lung troubles. Also produced Minard's Pills, Spruce Balsam, Blood Purifier, and Vegetable Tonic (Denver)
Physical Description Note: Clear variant probably after.
after 1900
Box 2, Bottle 46 Red Sea Balsam, New Bedford, Massachusetts
Contents Note: Product originally was A.D. Ashley's Red sea Balsam
Physical Description Note: No label.
circa 1890-1900
Box 2, Bottle 47 Sawyers Novelty Blacking patented March 4, 1873
Contents Note: This is not a medicine bottle but a blacking for stoves.
circa 1875-1880
Box 2, Bottle 48 Inflammatory Extirpator and Cleanser, G. W. Davis
Contents Note: N.Y. Lyon, Fall River, MA, Advertised 1856, For toothache, sore throat, headache, cold sores, dysentery, coughs, colds, sour stomach, croup, chilblains Ad: Springfield MA Republican and Gazette Oct. 8, 1856
Physical Description Note: No label, stain, clear
circa 1890
Binder 1, Slide 49 American Anodyne Liniment, Johnson's
Contents Note: Abner Johnson, Isaac Johnson, son, Bangor, ME, Advertised 1830. Listed in Meyer Bros, & Co. Wholesale Druggist Catalog, 1879, Robert Stevenson & Co. Wholesale Druggist Catalog (1888); Listed in 1905 The Pharmaceutical Era. I.S. Johnson, 22 Custom House St., Boston, MA. Moved to Boston in the 1870s. Johnson's // American // Anodyne // Liniment, clear or aqua, 4 3/8, cylinder, flared or rolled
Physical Description Note: No label, ABM with three point cap.
circa 1920-1930
Box 2, Bottle 50 Sylphonathol
Contents Note: Listed 1916 Druggist Circular sold in 10, 25, 75 and 2.00 sizes. Also half gallon and gallon cans by Beh & Herter, 176 Franklin St. New York
Physical Description Note: No label, ABM
circa 1915-1920
Box 2, Bottle 51 Hind's Honey and Almond Cream, E. S. Hind's and Company, Bloomfield, New Jersey, USA
Contents Note: Aurelius S. Hinds (1870-1925) invented the Honey and Almond Cream and first sold it over the counter at his drugstore in Portland. It was distributed nationally by the family run business. Sold in 11 ounce, 4 1/2 ounce and 7/8 ounce sizes by Lehn & Fink Inc. (1925+), Bloomfield N.J. (1935 American Druggist Price Book)
Physical Description Note: No label, ABM screw top
circa 1940
Box 2, Bottle 52 Dr. Job Sweet's Relaxative Ointment, New Bedford, Massachusetts
Contents Note: Also produced Dr. Job Sweet's Sprain Liniment. Advertised in the New England Business Directory 1871.
Physical Description Note: No label, applied tip.
circa 1870s
Box 2, Bottle 53 Dr. Humphrey's Specifics, New York
Physical Description Note: No label, ground lip with cap
circa 1895-1910
Box 2, Bottle 54 Dr. Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry, Philadelphia
Contents Note: Henry Wistar (Casper Wistar by one account); Isaac Butts, apothecary, Canterbury, Ct (1830s); Purchased by John D. Park (1842), Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry was introduced in the year 1838.. The only genuine article always bears the written signature of Isaac Butt's Originally prepare by Williams & Co, Philadelphia (1841). Now prepared by Seth W. Fowle, Boston, Ma. (1848), For sale by J.D. Parks (1849); NYT ad says Isaac Butts (1853); Listed R. Stevenson & Co. Druggist Catalog (1888); Pharmaceutical Era (1905) Seth W. Fowle & Sons, 81 High St, Boston; DC (1915); proprietor, John D. Park & Sons, Co., Cincinnati, OH, CE, July 4th 1852. It appears the ownership of this brand was probably shared as evidenced by it being sold by several concerns at the same time. Listed in two sizes 1935 American Druggist Price Book.
Physical Description Note: This is the sample size, no label, haze.
circa 1880-1900
Box 2, Bottle 55 Geo. C. Frye, Whitland, Maine
Contents Note: George C. Frye listed Corner of Free and Oak St. Portland, Maine. Products listed included: Pancreobismuth, Lithaited Saline, Hydrocarbonine Spray and Almondine. (1935 American Druggist Price Book)
Physical Description Note: No label, wide mouth flint glass probably salts of some sort. Unusual form nice mortar and pestle embossed.
Box 2, Bottle 56 Morses Indian Root Pills
Contents Note: First sold in Buffalo about 1850. Purchased by Comstock Company in 1855. Managed my Wm. Cornstock after 1866. The company moved to Morristown, NJ in 1867. Label was patented in 1879 and again in 1881. Sales peaked about 1910 at that time the pills were being put up in yellow tins. Pills were still being manufactured in parts of the world in the 1970s.
Physical Description Note: No label, tooled tip
circa 1890-1910
Box 2, Bottle 57 Alexander's Tricobaphe, made by R. and G. A. Wright, Philadelphia
Contents Note: George A. Wright (1838); Richard & George A. Wright, brothers, (1844-1870s); George A. Wright & Co, (1880), 624 Chestnut (1860), Philadelphia, PA, Advertised 1846, Instantaneously changes the hair from/to a beautiful brown or black without injury to the hair or skin. Maybe the same product as Alexander's Tricopherous TED, New Orleans, Oct. 13, 1846, Alexander's // Tricobaphe // R & G.A. Wright // Philad a, aqua, 2 1/2 or 3, 6 sided, rolled
Physical Description Note: No label, some haze.
circa 1840-1855
Box 2, Bottle 58 Johnson's American Anodyne Liniment
Contents Note: Abner Johnson, Isaac Johnson, son, Bangor, ME, Advertised 1830, Listed in Meyer Bros & Co. Wholesale Druggist Catalog, 1879; Robert Stevenson & Co. Wholesale Druggist Catalog (1888); Listed in 1905 The Pharmaceutical Era, I.S. Johnson, 22 Custom House St. Boston, MA. Moved to Boston in the 1870s. Johnson's // American // Anodyne // Liniment, clear or aqua, 4 3/8, cylinder, flared or rolled. Listed 1935 American Druggist Price Book owned by Etna Chemical Co, NY.
Physical Description Note: No label.
circa 1880-1900
Box 2, Bottle 59 Dr. McLane's American Worm Specific
Contents Note: Holmes & Kidd (1841); Jonathan Kidd & Co. (J Fleming) (1847); Fleming has his own store by 1854; Fleming Brothers successors to J. Kidd & Co., No. 60 Wood St (1844-1847), Pittsburgh, PA, Advertised 1839-1847, Sold as Dr. McLean's Vermifuge or American Vermifuge. Also sold a Balsam of Liverwort WS, Lebanon, OH Mar. 22, 1839. Doctor // McLane's // American Worm // Specific, aqua, 3 7/8, vial, rolled; similar except, Doctor // McLanes // American Worm Specific
Physical Description Note: No label, stain.
circa 1840-1855
Box 2, Bottle 60 Atwood's Vegetable Physical Jaundice Bitters
Contents Note: This bottle reads "alcohol 13 1/2% (27% proof made for the Manhattan Medicine Company, New York" Hall & Rucket are listed as owners of the Manhattan Medicine Company (1905)
Physical Description Note: 95% label.
circa 1906-1915
Box 2, Bottle 61 Extract of Cascara Sagrada
Contents Note: Abner Johnson, Isaac Johnson, son, Bangor, ME, Advertised 1830, Listed in Meyer Bros & Co. Wholesale Druggist Catalog, 1879; Robert Stevenson & Co. Wholesale Druggist Catalog (1888); Listed in 1905 The Pharmaceutical Era, I.S. Johnson, 22 Custom House St. Boston, MA. Moved to Boston in the 1870s. Johnson's // American // Anodyne // Liniment, clear or aqua, 4 3/8, cylinder, flared or rolled. Listed 1935 American Druggist Price Book owned by Etna Chemical Co, NY.
Physical Description Note: 90% label partial degraded.
circa 1907-1918
Box 2, Bottle 62 Dr. Seth Arnolds Balsam
Contents Note: Compounded of Pure Extracts or Vegetables . Instantaneous relief and perfectly safe remedy for spasmodic cholera, dysentery, and diarrhea. Prepared only by Dr. Seth Arnold, professor of chemistry, anatomy, surgery, Woonsocket, RI. Advertised 1847, 25 cents. Business began in New London, Ct. about 1840. He may have moved to Rhode Island as suggested in the 1847 ad. Owned by Gilman Bros. (1866); Listed in Robert Stevenson & Co. Wholesale Druggist Catalog (1888) 3 sizes. NCTEC, April 24, 1847, Dr. Seth Arnold's // Balsam, aqua, 4 3/4, rectangular, flared; Dr. S. / Arnold's // Balsam, aqua, 2 1/4, 8 sided, flared. Listed 1935 American Druggist Price Book. Owned by John A. Gilman estate, Boston, MA
Physical Description Note: 100% label, cork.
circa 1866-1895
Box 2, Bottle 63 "Dr. Beemans Mohawk Liniment, Manufactured by the Mohawk Medicine Company, Elizabeth, New Jersey
Contents Note: On front: "Prepared by the original Indian formula for the cure of rheumatism, neuralgia, burns, scalds, bruises, frostbite, toothache, headache, sore throat, diphtheria, lame back, sprains, bunions, corns, bites of insects, etc... Directions, bath frequently till perfectly relieved. Manufactured by the Mohawk Medicine Company, Elizabeth, New Jersey. Sold by druggists. Price 25 cents." On back: "The Mohawk Liniment was obtained by a tribe of Indians inhabiting Central New York, by Dr. William Rose from England, about the year 1786. The doctor used it in his practice the remainder of his life and after his death it became the property of his son, William Rose Jr. of Binghamton, New York and of him it was purchased by the present proprietor in 1861." Dr. Ephraim Beeman managed a medical practice in Elizabeth, New Jersey from 1871 to 1888. In 1888, Beeman became proprietor of the Mohawk Medicine Company at 49 Pine St. He ran the business at that address until 1893 when he moved to 457 Franklin St. By 1907 he was no longer listed.
Box 2, Bottle 64 Thermex is
Contents Note: For chest colds, bronchitis, bruises, rheumatism, stiff neck, sprains, sore or stiff muscles, and tonsillitis. It is made by the R.T. French Company, Rochester, New York. It is composed of goose grease, volatile oil of mustard and other ingredients.
Physical Description Note: Box, label and some contents.
circa 1940
Box 2, Bottle 65 Red Sea Balsam
Contents Note: For external and internal us. Active ingredients, include oil of turpentine and oil of eucalyptus. Price 35 cents. Made by the Red Sea Balsam Company, Fall River, Massachusetts. The package label reads, "Red Sea Balsam has been used successfully for over 50 years as an aid for the relief of coughs and hoarseness due to colds." "A favorite home remedy since 1887."
Physical Description Note: Box, label and some contents.
circa 1930-1940
Box 2, Bottle 66 Pain Killer (bottle reads on the front-shown), "vegetable pain killer", "Perry Davis' Vegetable Pain Killer, Providence, Rhode Island"
Contents Note: Front of bottle: "Perry Davis' Vegetable Pain Killer Manufactured by Perry Davis & Son, Providence, RI" with stamp in red ink: "Manufactured by Davis & Lawrence Co. New York" Back of bottle: "This mixture contains 91% proof spirit and 24/100 gr. opium to a dram. Ordinary dose: Adult teaspoonful, children 4 to 12 years 1/2 teaspoonful, infants 1 to 4 years, 15 drops. Diluted to wineglass or more sweetened water for adults and children in proportion. (See directions around bottle) Adult dose when diluted will then contain 3% alcohol and 24/100 grain from opium, smaller doses proportionately less. Repeat the dose every half hour till relieved. It is perfectly harmless (except in the case of infants under one year; to whom it should not be given) and can be taken internally or externally. Principal Label: Davis & Lawrence Co., New York"
Physical Description Note: 99% front and back label.
circa 1890
Box 2, Bottle 67 J. M. Grosvenor, MD, Liver Aid (the directions on the bottle are in Spanish, German and English)
Contents Note: Produced by Carswell Drug Company, Americus, GA (1913-1935) Produced by Williams Co. Philadelphia (1905 Pharmaceutical Era)
Physical Description Note: 85% label.
circa 1880-1900
Box 2, Bottle 68 Ponds Extract
Contents Note: Dr. Pond, Ithaca, NY (1850); Pond's Extract Co. (1915) NYC, NY, Advertised 1852, About 1850, Dr. Fredrick Humphreys, of the Homeopathic Remedies fame, moved to Ithaca, NY, where he came into contact with Dr. Pond who interested him in the manufacture of an extract of witch hazel. Dr. Humphreys devised a means of fixing the problem of rapid evaporation, and he bought the rights of manufacture and the name and began production of Pond's Extract retaining the name for its apparent trademark value. Under his management the sales of the product grew tremendously. In 1872 he sold out to Mr. F.W. Hurt, later it was to become the Pond's Extract Co. It was an internal and external remedy. Robert Stevenson & Co. Wholesale Druggist Catalog: Large, medium, small and Veterinary (1 gal. and 1 qt. sizes) (1888); DC: proprietor, Pond's Extract Co. 131 Hudson St, NYC, 3 sizes, vanishing cream, Cold Cream, soap, dentifrice (1915), Pond's / Extract, aqua, 5 1/4 or 4 1/16, rectangular, tc. (Greer)
Physical Description Note: No label.
Box 2, Bottle 69 Sloan's Liniment Kills Pain, 18 fluid ounces (actually it has the stuff in there)
Contents Note: Earl S. Sloan (1848-1923) from Logan County, Ohio, Earl Sloan, son of Susan and Andrew Sloan, was born and spent his childhood in a log house (the original no longer exists) directly across the street from the library. Not much is known about his childhood except that the family was poor and Earl did not complete his formal schooling. His father worked at the village livery and was a self-taught veterinarian who sold homemade horse liniment (it is supposed the natives supplied him with the original formula). Earl quit his schooling and apprenticed as a harness maker. In 1871, he took his father's liniment recipe and left Zanesfield for Missouri, where his brother traded horses. While working with his brother, Early began hawking the horse tonic locally. After finding it a good sale item, the brothers traveled to fairs and carnivals selling the liniment. At one point, they discovered that a man had taken the tonic for himself and had claimed it was good for man or beast. The slogan "Good for Man or Beast" was born. The liniment sold so well in Missouri that Early traveled to Chicago. He advertised his tonic in newspaper and on streets.
Physical Description Note: Contents and cork.
circa 1880-1900
Box 2, Bottle 70 Ashtray Rheumatic and Neuralgic Paste
Contents Note: I can't easily evaluate this item. It might be a modern piece.
Binder 1, Slide 71 Miller's Oil, formally known as snake oil
Contents Note: It does not contain snake oil (this is what says on the bottle) An agreeable liniment, an external preparation containing camphor, turpentine, coal oil, paprika, carbolic acid, eucalyptus coves, origanium sassafras and menthol salicylate. Recommended for the relief of superficial aches and pains due to exposure or exertion. Price 50 cent.
Physical Description Note: 100% label, contents, and plastic cap.
circa 1920-1930
Box 2, Bottle 72 Harris' Pure Extract, Jamaica Ginger. Manufactured by Frankie Harrison Company, Binghamton, New York
Contents Note: Alcohol 88% for medicinal purposes. The best stimulant and tonic ever used. Cramps, colic, internal pain, and summer complaints are promptly relieved. Invaluable for chills, colds and maladies arising from the sudden changes in weather.
Physical Description Note: 99% label some staining, cork.
circa 1900
Box 2, Bottle 73 Porter's Pain King
Contents Note: 1905 Pharmaceutical Era produced by the Frank O. Reddish & Co., Leroy, NY, 1935 American Druggist price Book lists Geo. Rundle Co. Piqua, OH as owner.
Physical Description Note: No label.
circa 1900
Box 2, Bottle 74 Dr. True's Elixir, established 1851, Dr. J.F. True Company, Inc. Auburn, Maine
Contents Note: Billed as Family Laxative and Worm Expeller (1870s). Gargle, Liniment, and Pain Destroying compound 1899. 1914 International Druggist listed True's Elixir in three sizes. Baldwin lists Dr. John F. True & Company, Auburn, ME for True's Pin Worm Elixir advertised August 17, 1887 in Squirrel Island Squid. (ME)
Physical Description Note: No label.
circa 1880-1900
Box 2, Bottle 75 Hunt's Liniment
Contents Note: Prepared by Geo. E. Stanton, proprietor Sing Sing, NY for rheumatism and diseases of the spine. Listed 1888 Robert Stevenson & Co. Wholesale Druggist Catalog.
Physical Description Note: No label, some stain.
circa 1845-1858
Box 3, Bottle 76 Dr. Shoop's Family Medicine, "Dr. Shoop's Restorative" Racine, Wisconsin, for stomach, kidneys, and heart
Contents Note: Dr. C. Irving Shoop had a large list of patent medicines among which were Cough cure, Croup Cure, Fever Cure, Night cure, Pain Panacea, a Sarsaparilla and others. They probably almost all used the same bottle with different labels. Shoop made a fortune from his products and is credited with creating Michigan Blvd (Racine) and donated what is now Shoop Park and Golf Course. He employed up to 350 men and the company put out more than 2000 bottles a day around 1900. (Shimko)
Physical Description Note: 80% label.
circa 1892-1920
Box 3, Bottle 77 Dr. S.H. Thompson Steral Tube, June 13, 1922
circa 1920-1930
Box 3, Bottle 78 E.M. Johnson Druggist, Middleboro, Massachusetts
circa 1880-1900
Binder 1, Slide 79 Minard's Liniment
Contents Note: Minard Liniment Mfg. Co. Boston, MA (1886) Minard's Liniment Mfg. Company South Framingham known as Minard's King of Pain Liniment. The company also sold Minard's King Rheumatism Cure, Kidney Cure and several other medicines (191301916 Druggist Circular), Minard Company, Framingham, MA. Listed Liniment in four sizes (1935 American Druggist Price Book) Recommended for rheumatism and even lung trouble.
circa 1910
Box 3, Bottle 80 F.W. Kinsman and Company Druggist, New York City
circa 1880-1890
Binder 1, Slide 81 Sulfate of Morphine 1/8 ounce, Powers and Weightman, Philadelphia
Contents Note: A cache of these were found.
circa 1890-1900
Box 3, Bottle 82 Essence of Peppermint
circa 1830-1840
Box 3, Bottle 83 Edward Heffernan, Lynn Massachusetts, Sole Proprietor. French Remedy for Colds, Throat and lung troubles
circa 1890-1915
Box 3, Bottle 84 Lydia E. Pinkham's Medicine
Contents Note: Lydia Pinkham first commercialized her Compound in 1875. She died a rich woman in 1883. Product was immensely popular and may well be still being sold today. There were Pinkham jokes editorials, students wrote for her for advice on many matters. A song was composed about her. Lydia was a folk hero. The product was for women's complaints.
circa 1910-1920
Box 3, Bottle 85 The Reliable Old-Time Medicine for Home Use
Contents Note: A product of Peter Fahrney of Chicago, IL
circa 1918
Box 3, Bottle 86 Rolf's New Medical Discovery Belfast Maine
Contents Note: An obvious competitor of Kennedy's New Discovery and Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery this product never gained the popularity of the other two. Listed in 1912 Druggist Circular.
Physical Description Note: No label.
circa 1912
Box 3, Bottle 87 Pepsenia-Essence of Pepsine-Fairchild
Contents Note: Listed in the 1912-1916 Druggist Circular as Fairchild's Essence of Pepsine
circa 1912
Box 3, Bottle 88 Fever & Ague cure
Contents Note: RHODE'S FEVER & AGUE CURE. James A. Rhodes, proprietor Providence, RI, Advertised 1855-1856. One Norris Felt is listed in 1856 as a traveling agent for Rhodes Fever & Ague Cure. Listed in 1905 Pharmaceutical Era: R.E. Rhode, N. Clark, Chicago, Il. OCCD 1858, Rhode's // Antidote / To / Malaria // Fever & Ague Cure, aqua, 8 1/4, rectangular, tc; same but without Antidote to Malaria on front.
circa 1860
Box 3, Bottle 89 Appolinaris Mineral Water
Contents Note: Listed 1905 Pharmaceutical Era in pints, quarts and splits.
Physical Description Note: 100% label and contents, crown top
circa 1915
Box 3, Bottle 90 Mrs. Winslow's soothing syrup, Mark Curtis and Ann Perkins proprietors. (2 bottles)
Contents Note: Jeremiah Curtis & Benjamin A. Perkins, Jeremiah moved from Bangor to NYC (1854); George M. Curtis and Jeremiah 48 Fulton St (1856); Principal Office No 13 Cedar St. (1858); J. Curtis Jr. joins (1858); Curtis & Brown (1860-1875) (Wilson), NYC, NY, Advertised 1858-59, First sold 1849. Named for Mrs. Charlotte N. Winslow, Jeramiah Curtis' mother-in-law. Contained Morphia sulphate. For teething, sore gums and to regulate the bowel, dysentery. Listed Meyer Bros. & Co. Wholesale Druggist Catalog. (1879); Pharmaceutical Era (1905): Anglo-American Drug Co. 215 Fulton St. NYC. CDG, Aug. 8, 1859, Mrs. Winslow's // Soothing Syrup // Curtis & Perkins // Proprietors, aqua, 5 1/8, cylinder, rolled
Physical Description Note: 5% label
circa 1880-1900
Box 3, Bottle 91 Teething bottle without a label except on the bottom where it says, T.P.S. and Company, New York -shown upright
Contents Note: Figural known as Crying Baby, contents unknown
circa 1890-1910
Box 3, Bottle 92 Miller's Oil the bottle reads, "snake oil an agreeable liniment, price .50 recommended for the relief of superficial aches and pains due to exposure or exertion"
circa 1920-1940
Box 3, Bottle 93 Dr. Thomas's Eclectic oil, price .60 cents, Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo, NY for coughs due to colds and common sore throats
Contents Note: Screw top 1930-40s. Advertised 1885 Foster-Milburn (Baldwin) Druggist Circular 1912 sold by Foster-Milburn, Buffalo, NY. Listed 1935 American Druggist Price Brook.
Physical Description Note: 100% label and contents.
circa 1930-1940
Box 3, Bottle 94 Dr. N.G. Whit's Pulmonary Elixir, coughs colds hoarseness, croup, pleurisy. Dr. H. Baxter, Highgate, Vermont, price .35 cents
Contents Note: Possibly the same as or a competitor of White's Pulmonary Elixir listed in Druggist Circular 1912 owned by Henry, Johnson and Lord Co. 121 College St. Burlington, VT. They acquired many brands from smaller proprietors.
Physical Description Note: 90% label.
circa 1880-1890
Box 3, Bottle 95 Dr. Porter New York
Contents Note: DR. PORTER'S CURATIVE BALSAM, Hall & Ruckel proprietors, 218 Greenwich, NYC (1856). Testimonials to 1838, Known as Madam Zadoc Porter's Curative Balsam, NY. Listed Druggist Circular (1913) as Porter's Cough Balsam, in two sizes, Halt & Ruckel, 215 Washington St., NYC. (Odell 2000) Dr. Porter / New York, aqua, 4 7/8, rectangular, rolled. (Greer)
circa 1850
Box 3, Bottle 96 Opodeldoc (on back of the bottle, liquid)
Contents Note: LIQUID OPODELDOC. A generic bottle used by many companies. One is labeled B.A. Fahnestock's, Pittsburgh (Odell 2000)
circa 1830-1855
Box 3, Bottle 97 Dr. Hayne's Arabian Balsam, E. Morgan & Son, Providence, Rhode Island
Contents Note: See Miller's. This is the same product except an earlier variant.
circa 1880s
Box 3, Bottle 98 Dr. King's New Discovery
Contents Note: "In the country and small city newspapers there is now being advertised lavishly "Dr. King's New discovery for Consumption." It is proclaimed to be the "only sure cure for consumption." Further announcement is made that "it strikes terror to the doctors." as it is a morphine and chloroform mixture, "Dr. Kings New Discovery for consumption is well calculated to strike terror to the doctors or to any other class or profession, except, perhaps, the undertakers. It is a pretty diabolical concoction to give anyone, and particularly to a consumptive. The chloroform temporarily allays the cough, thereby checking Nature's effort to throw off the dead matter from the lungs. The opium drugs the patient into a deceived cheerfulness. the combination is admirably designed to shorten the life of any consumptive who takes it steadily." Great American Fraud (1905)
Physical Description Note: Sample size bottle.
circa 1890-1900
Box 3, Bottle 99 A. D. Ashley's Red Sea Balsam, New Bedford, Massachusetts
Contents Note: A. Davis Ashley was a carriage making who bottle the Red Sea Balsam in the upper floors of the Arcade Bldg in New Bedford MA in the early 1870s. His son Clifford W. Ashley was an artist who did work for Harper's Weekly, (Blasi). Bottle is known with tooled lip and ABM (automatic bottle machine).
Physical Description Note: No label.
circa 1880-1910
Box 3, Bottle 100 Sample bottle of Dr. Kilmers Swamp Root kidney cure, Binghamton, New York
Physical Description Note: No label, stain.
circa 1890-1905
Box 3, Bottle 101 "cupping" suction cup
Contents Note: Unknown
Box 3, Bottle 102 M. L. Wertherell Druggist and Chemist, Gloucester, Massachusetts
Contents Note: Local druggist prescription bottle.
Physical Description Note: No label, chipped lip.
circa 1890-1900
Binder 1, Slide 103 Atwood's jaundice Bitters, formally made by Moses Atwood, Georgetown, MA
Physical Description Note: Appears ABM, no label
circa 1915-1925
Binder 1, Slide 104 Vegetable Pain Killer ("vegetable" on one side, "pain killer" on the other (Three bottles-two shown)
Physical Description Note: No label
circa 1890-1900
Binder 1, Slide 105 Humphreys Marvel of Healing
Contents Note: Frederick Humphrey's witch hazel oil 1878 trademarked, NY
Physical Description Note: No labels, one stained
circa 1880-1900
Binder 1, Slide 106 Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup (but it is entitled, Anglo American Drug Company, successor to Curtis and Perkins proprietors
Physical Description Note: No labels, one stained.
circa 1880-1900
Binder 1, Slide 107 A dose measuring bottle, Measuring Appliance Company, Providence, Rhode Island
Physical Description Note: No label.
1890-1900
Box 3, Bottle 108 Dr. S. Pitcher's Castoria
Contents Note: "Some thirty years ago (About 1879) one Dr. Samuel Pitcher patented a formula for the preparation of a syrup of senna with aromatics obtained by extracting senna with hot water containing a little sodium bicarbonate. This preparation was sold under the copyright named 'Castoria.' since then the patent for this preparation has expired and the preparation as well as the name have become public property....such a preparation is official in the U.S. Pharmacopeia as Syrupus Sennae." From the Journal A.M.A. January 4, 1909.
Physical Description Note: No label.
Binder 1, Slide 109 Three Crow Pine and Elm Brand Cough Syrup, contains 11% alcohol, made by the Atlantic Spice Company, Rockland, Maine
Contents Note: 99% label contains not over 11% alcohol. It is produced by the Atlantic Spice Co., Rockland Maine. The name at the top of the bottle is three Crow showing Trademark and a picture of three crows.
Physical Description Note: Excellent condition with nice graphic on label.
Box Unknown container 2081 for instance of Hood's Tooth Powder, a preserver and beautifier for the teeth prepared only by C.1. Hood and Company Apothecary, Lowell Massachusetts, Bottle 110 Hood's Tooth Powder, a preserver and beautifier for the teeth prepared only by C.1. Hood and Company Apothecary, Lowell Massachusetts
Contents Note: Same company as Hood's Sarsaparilla.
Physical Description Note: 100% tablets, stopper and contents.
circa 1890-1900
Box 4, Bottle 111 Mosso's Oil-O-Sol
Contents Note: Screw top C.A. Mosso Company, Chicago, IL
Physical Description Note: Box, label and contents.
circa 1930-1940
Box 4, Bottle 112 Dr. Hand's stringent mixture, Hand Medicine Co., Philadelphia, PA, successor to D.D. Hand, MD
Contents Note: Dr. D.B. Hand was from Scranton, PA advertised 1860s-1948. Bottles were all the same with different labels for his Pleasant Physic, a cough and croup remedy, a colic cure (ad: 1889) a diarrhoea mixture(ad:1896), a general tonic, a teething lotion and a worm elixir (1889).
Physical Description Note: unknown
Box 4, Bottle 113 A hair tonic out of Boston, Massachusetts "Ruggier's Brillantine"
Contents Note: Name Brilliantine was used by dozens of companies (1916 Druggist Circular).
Physical Description Note: appears ABM, label in poor condition
Box 4, Bottle 114 Groves Tasteless Chill Tonic for relieve of malaria and resulting chills and fever, Grove Laboratory, Inc., St. Louis Missouri
Contents Note: Ad: Oct. 1899 Daily Picayune, New Orleans
Physical Description Note: Label and contents.
circa 1930-1940
Box 4, Bottle 115 Tuttle's elixir, Company Boston, Massachusetts
Physical Description Note: No label
circa 1880-1900
Box 4, Bottle 116 Healey and Bigelow Kickapoo Indian Oil
Physical Description Note: No label, some haze
circa 1880-1900
Box 4, Bottle 117 Pulmonine, as sure cure for colds, cough and lung troubles, made by Cushing Medical Supply Co., Clinton, Massachusetts
Contents Note: Listed in 1912 Druggist Circular W. Cushing & Co Foxcroft, ME
Physical Description Note: Label badly stained
circa 1912
Box 4, Bottle 118 King's Juniper Tar Cough Balsam, George W. Morrison, Co. Clinton, Massachusetts
Contents Note: 1916 Druggist Circular lists a Juniper Tar Cough Balsam manufactured By Warner Co. Denver, Co.
Physical Description Note: No label
1890-1900
Binder 1, Slide 119 S. A. Tuttle, Boston, Massachusetts
Physical Description Note: No label
circa 1910-1920
Box 4, Bottle 120 J. L. Mathieu's cough syrup, Marlboro, Massachusetts, formally syrup of tar and cold liver oil
Physical Description Note: No label
1914-1920
Box 4, Bottle 121 Dr. Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry, Philadelphia
Physical Description Note: No label
circa 1870-1880
Box 4, Bottle 122 Kilmer's Swamp Root, kidney and liver and bladder cure
Physical Description Note: No label, small size.
circa 1880-1906
Box 4, Bottle 123 A second bottle of Kilmer's Swamp Root, diuretic to kidneys are mild laxative-- Note: this bottle doesn't claim cure and is a more recent bottle, clearly made after the pure food and drug act because It has the contains clearly labeled
Physical Description Note: Label and contents.
circa 1930-1940
Box 4, Bottle 124 Another early bottle, The Great Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root, kidney, liver and bladder cure. On the bottom, "specific"
Physical Description Note: No label
circa 1880-1906
Binder 1, Slide 125 Previous three bottles of Kilmer's together
Box 4, Bottle 126 Lydia E. Pinkham's Medicine
Physical Description Note: No label
circa 1918-1925
Box 4, Bottle 127 Cooper's New Discover
Physical Description Note: No label, ABM
circa 1900-1916
Box 4, Bottle 128 Father John's Medicine, Lowell, Massachusetts
Contents Note: Carleton & Hovey Co., Lowell, MA. Est. about 1870. Mixture of Cod Live oil for Consumption.
Physical Description Note: No label, generic bottle used by many companies
circa 1890-1910
Box 4, Bottle 129 Citrate of Magnesia
Physical Description Note: No label
circa 1910-1920
Box 4, Bottle 130 Dr. King's New Discovery for coughs and colds, Chicago, Illinois
Physical Description Note: No label
1890-1906
Binder 1, Slide 131 old bottle from the ocean, "Mexican Mustang Liniment, Lyon Manufacturing Co., New York"
Contents Note: This appears to be exactly the same bottle as #20. The bottle is dug and has heavy stain. See #20
Box 4, Bottle 132 Hood's Sarsaparilla
Physical Description Note: No label
circa 1880-1910
Box 4, Bottle 133 Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. R.V. Pierce, MD, Buffalo, New York
Physical Description Note: No label
circa 1880-1910
Box 4, Bottle 134 Dr. Greene's Nervura, the great brain and nerve invigorant and health restorer, with a long list of cures. Drs. F. E. J. A. Greene, Boston, Massachusetts, price $1.00. Note — on the bottle it says, none genuine unless the name of Dr. Greene is blown in th
Physical Description Note: 85% label
circa 1890-1906
Binder 1, Slide 135 Hood's Sarsaparilla
Physical Description Note: No label
circa 1880-1910
Box 4, Bottle 136 A "guarantee" flask (for whiskey)
Physical Description Note: No label
1890-1914
Binder 1, Slide 137 Kodol for dyspepsia and indigestion, E.C. Dewitt and Co., Chicago and New York, USA. Contains 12% pure grain alcohol
Physical Description Note: 100% label and contents
circa 1900
Box 4, Bottle 138 Dirt-solvent E.E. Clifford and Co., Portland, Maine
Physical Description Note: No label
circa 1800-1900
Box 4, Bottle 139 Child teething bottle with an ivory nipple
Contents Note: Early flask or nurses. Appears to be flint glass, pontiled.
circa 1820-1840
Box 4, Bottle 140 Howard's Vegetable Cancer and canker syrup
circa 1850-1860
Binder 1, Slide 141 Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, Rochester, New York (bottle has a picture of a safe on it)
Physical Description Note: No label
circa 1880-1905
Binder 1, Slide 142 Bottle of cod liver oil
Contents Note: Scott's Emulsion
Physical Description Note: No label, stained.
circa 1880-1910
Binder 1, Slide 143 Dr. J. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters
Contents Note: The Bitters reportedly contained 44.3% alcohol (DC 1889). This was later reduced to about 25% after the Food and Drug Act. First advertised 1852 PPCD; Listed in Robert Stevenson & Co. Wholesale Druggist Catalog (1888); 1905 Pharmaceutical Era: The Hostetter Co, 59 & 60 Water St, Pitts. PA. CDT, June 9, 1854, Dr. J Hostetter's / Stomach Bitters, black, amber, 10 1/4, rectangular, to, IP, Reported by Samuel Hopkins Adams, Great American Fraud, to contain 21% alcohol (1905).
Physical Description Note: No label, some inside stain.
circa 1880-1900
Box 5, Bottle 144 "Pink pills for Pale People", in glass for export. Note clever placement or letter P
Contents Note: Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady, NY introduced 1865. Listed past 1917. (Fike)
Box 5, Bottle 145 Rochester's Germicide Co
Contents Note: It began in 1888, when two men, Daniel N. Calkins and Clarence P. Crowell, purchased the Rochester New York Agency of the Aromatic Disinfecting Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a company that supplied equipment and disinfecting fluid for restrooms. Under the new company name of Rochester Germicide Company, improvements in the system were made and expansion into manufacturing other products began. By 1907, Rochester Germicide had opened sales offices in Boston, Toronto, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland and was manufacturing and selling handle soaps, floor cleaners, disinfectants, and insecticides." (htpp://www.rochestermidland.com/aboutrmc/history/default.htm)
circa 1890-1915
Box 5, Bottle 146 Glover's Imperial Medicine
Contents Note: H. Clay Glover Company. This product was a mange medicine for animals.
Physical Description Note: No label, ABM
circa 1920-1930
Box 5, Bottle 147 Hood's Pharmacy
Contents Note: Hood's Pharmacy, Turner Falls Mass
circa 1900
Box 5, Bottle 148 Foss Liquid Fruit Flowers
1900-1920
Box 5, Bottle 149 Methyl Purple
late 20th century
Box 5, Bottle 150 Stieaux's Pill
1890-1910
Box 5, Bottle 151 Hamlin's Wizard Oil
Contents Note: John A. Hamlin, Cincinnati, OH, Advertised 1859, Purchased the brand from Dr. C. M. Townsend, of Lima OH (Wilson) Listed Cincinnati one year then moved to Chicago where he grew the brand into the huge seller. His son, Lysander joined him the 1870s. Listed in Meyer Bros. & Co, Wholesale Druggist Catalog, (1879); Robert Stevenson & Co. Wholesale Druggist Catalog in 2 sizes (1888); Pharmaceutical Era (1905), Hamlin's Wizard Oil Co., 63 Market St. Chicago, IL. Hamlin's / Wizard / Oil // Cincinnati / Ohio, aqua, 3 7/8, oval; same except, 4, Chicago, IL
Physical Description Note: Box and contents
circa 1930-1940
Box 5, Bottle 152 Maltine
Contents Note: John Camrick introduced this brand in 1875. He established the Maltine Manufacturing Company in 1878. He produced 14 different Maltines. In the 1890s he sold the business. It continued in business under various managements until it became part of the Warner Lambert Company in 1952. After the Food and Drug Act of 1906 it was advertised as a stimulating expectorant.
Physical Description Note: Label badly deteriorated.
circa 1890-1900
Binder 1, Slide 153 Boericke and Tafel's Homeopathic Family Medicine Case
Contents Note: Boericke & Tafel established by Francis E. Boericke and Adolph J. Tafel NY directories listed firm from 1872-1930, Philadelphia listed 1873-1948, Portland, OR 1903-1906, San Francisco 1870-1886, the San Francisco firm was listed as successors to Boericke and Tafel. (Fike) 1912 & 1916 Boericke & Runyon (1891-1956) Homeopathic Pharmacists, 14 W. 38th St. NY. Moved Again in 1917 to 200 Sixth Ave. (Druggist Circular)
circa 1870-1890
Box 5, Bottle 154 Dr. Vanduzer
Box 5, Bottle 155 Robert Gibson's Tablets
Contents Note: Listed as Gibson's Lime Fruit Tablets in 1 and 5 gallon jars. 1912 Druggist Circular.
Physical Description Note: No label.
circa 1900
Box 5, Bottle 156 Paine's Celery Compound
Contents Note: Listed 1912 Druggist Circular, Wells & Richardson, Burlington, VT, Reported by Samuel Hopkins Adams, Great American Fraud, to contain 21% alcohol (1905)
Physical Description Note: No label.
circa 1880-1910
Box 5, Bottle 156a Old Sachem Bitters
Contents Note: Wm. Goodrich, proprietor, George Hunnewell, agent, principal depot, 145 Water St, NYC, NY, Advertised 1859, For loss of appetite, constipation other derangements of the stomach. HW, Oct. 15, 1859, Old Sachem / Bitters / and / Wigwam Tonic, aqua, 10 1/2 or amber, 9 5/16, figural barrel, sc.
Physical Description Note: Assuming color is amber any other color price would be higher.
circa 1860-1870
Box 5, Bottle 157 Renne's Magic Oil
Contents Note: Advertised 1884, Listed 1912 Druggist Circular. Dr. Herrick's Family Medicine Co., 50 N. Second St. St. Louis, MO. This medicine company owned by James T. Ballard of St. Louis.
Physical Description Note: 65% label
circa 1890
Box 5, Bottle 158 Frank's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure
Contents Note: This bottle is a reproduction. The bottom marked Wheaton indicates it was blown in Wheaton, NJ sometime in the late 1960s or early 1970s. The bottle is known in at least four colors amber, amethyst, blue and green. This bottle is one of the six in the American Antique Bottle Decanter reproductions. Actually no such bottle ever existed the fantasy bottle design was based on a Warner's Safe Cure bottle.
circa 1970s
Box 5, Bottle 159 Dr. Pierce's Prescription
circa 1890-1910
Box 6, Bottle 160 Mrs. E. Kidder Dysentery
Contents Note: Prepared under the immediate inspection of Mrs. E. Kidder, 100 Court (1846-1858), Boston, MA, Advertised 1837-1852, Dysentery, Cholera Morbus, diarrhoea, teething children, vomiting, sea sickness. The labels on the bottles are signed by her own hand. Listed in Robert Stevenson & Co. Wholesale Druggist Catalog, Mrs. Kidder's Cordial (1888) CE, July 3, 1852, Mrs. E. Kidder's // Dysentery // Cordial // Boston, aqua, 6, cylinder, tc; Mrs. E. Kidder's // Dysentery // Cordial // Boston, olive green or aqua, 8, cylinder, tc; also 7 15/16, emerald green, dtc; Mrs. E. Kidder's / Dysentery / Cordial / Boston, aqua, 3 ¾ dtc, IP
Physical Description Note: No label
circa 1850-1860
Box 6, Bottle 161 Dr. Cox's Barbed Wire Liniment and Antiseptic
Contents Note: Listed 1912 Druggist Circular, hoover Liniment Co. Carlisle
Physical Description Note: Box and contents
circa 1890-1910
Box 6, Bottle 162 Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
Contents Note: Listed 1912 Druggist Circular, Hoover Liniment Co. Carlisle
Physical Description Note: No label
circa 1890-1910
Box 6, Bottle 163 Brown's Sarsaparilla
Contents Note: Ad: 1884, almanac printed 1887 - "Prepared by Ara Warren, Druggist, Bangor, Me. From a prescription of Dr. Wm. H. Brown, the originator of it. Dr. Brown was a well known Physician in Maine and New England, and ex-mayor of Bangor. He was a graduate of Bowdoin College, 1842, and Harvard Medical School, 1850." (Shimko) Listed 1912 Druggist Circular, Ara Warren, Hammond & Central, Bangor, ME
Physical Description Note: No label
circa 1880-1900
Box 6, Bottle 164 Tablespoons
Contents Note: Color appears to be cornflower blue in the photo. If so value might be closer to $20.
Physical Description Note: Possibly English
circa 1900
Box 6, Bottle 165 Tuberculozyne
Contents Note: It began in 1888, when two men, Daniel N. Calkins and Clarence P. Crowell, purchased the Rochester New York Agency of the Aromatic Disinfecting Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a company that supplied equipment and disinfecting fluid for restrooms. Under the new company name of Rochester Germicide Company, improvements in the system were made and expansion into manufacturing other products began. By 1907, Rochester Germicide had opened sales offices in Boston, Toronto, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland and was manufacturing and selling handle soaps, floor cleaners, disinfectants, and insecticides." (http://www.rochestermidland.com/aboutrmc/history/default.htm)
Physical Description Note: 95% label. Lip badly damaged.
circa 1900-1910
Box 6, Bottle 166 William's Eye Water
Contents Note: Generic bottle and probably put up by a local physician. Product is not listed anywhere.
Physical Description Note: 95% label.
circa 1900
Box 6, Bottle 167 Poison Tinct Iodine
Physical Description Note: No label.
circa 1915-1930
Binder 1, Slide 168 Hamilton's Old English Formula: Black Oil Compound
Contents Note: Listed 1912 Druggist Circular, Kimball Bros. & Co. Enosburg Falls, VT
Physical Description Note: Label and contents.
circa 1930-1940
Box 6, Bottle 169 Hamlin's Wizard Oil
Physical Description Note: Badly stained.
circa 1890
Box 6, Bottle 170 1000 Series (2 bottles)
Contents Note: Generic bottle.
Physical Description Note: Labels in extremely poor condition.
circa 1900-1915
Box 6, Bottle 171 Elmer's Celebrated Vegetable Plaster
Contents Note: Pill vial.
Physical Description Note: Label and content.
circa 1900-1920
Binder 1, Slide 172 Peppermint
Contents Note: Generic oil bottle.
Physical Description Note: Label, neck seal and contents.
circa 1900
Box 6, Bottle 173 Ely's Cream Balm
Contents Note: Ad: 1898 "For catarrh, hay fever cold in head, fifty cents, samples ten cents by mail, Ely Brothers, 56 Warren St., New York City.
Physical Description Note: photo missing
Box 6, Bottle 174 Cushing Company Process
Contents Note: Container for Pulmonine.
Physical Description Note: No label
circa 1900+
Box 6, Bottle 175 Bromo-Seltzer
Contents Note: From The Journal A.M.A. Sept. 29, 1906, 2158. 100 Parts of Effervescing salts contain: Potassium bromide 10.53 parts, Acetanilid 4.58 parts, caffeine 1.2 parts... Since half an ounce of this preparation is often taken at a dose, and since many, especially women are taking daily, it is anything but "harmless." Three cases of poisoning are reported in the report including, "Dr. W.J. Robinson, New York reported a case of impotence following the excessive use of this nostrum."
Physical Description Note: No label, generic bottle used by many companies.
circa 1890-1910
Box 6, Bottle 176 Denton's Famous Salve
Contents Note: The salve was a product of the Denton medicine Co., Nashville, TN. Still offered for sale in 1935 by the Denton Medicine Co. of St. Louis.
Physical Description Note: Label and tin.
circa 1920
Box 6, Bottle 177 D.B. Griffin Chemist, Wakefield, RI
Contents Note: Generic bottle.
Physical Description Note: No label.
circa 1890-1910
Box 6, Bottle 178 Schenck's Mandrake-Liver Pills
Contents Note: Prepared by J. H. Schenck, Laboratory at S.E. corner of Coats and Marshall Streets: (1849); 39 N. 6th St. (1853-1857); prepared only at his laboratory at Schenck's Railroad Station, Neshaminy Bridge, Bucks Co. PA (1854), Philadelphia, PA, Advertised 1850-1855. For coughs and consumption, this was probably his first product listed at 89 N. 6th St. Phila in 1858. He also sold Schenck's Mandrake Pills for liver complaint. Dr. J.A. Schenck, the father of the proprietor was said to have suffered from pulmonary trouble. A change of climate and occupation gave him no relief and he had long given up on physicians. Upon the suggestion of an old friend of the family, he tried an old fashioned remedy. Within a year he was again healthy and he commenced the manufacture of the remedy. He moved from Flemington, N.J. to Philadelphia. He began with a single room and a few simple appliances. After several moves, he located at the NE corner of Sixth and Arch Streets, where the business was eventually carried on by his son J.H. Schenck. The Pulmonic Syrup was the original product with the Seaweed Tonic and Mandrake Pills added later. Listed Meyer Bros. & Co.
Physical Description Note: 95% label and wood pill box.
English.
circa 1850-1870
Box 6, Bottle 179 Tyalid
Contents Note: Product of G. W. Camrick, Newark, NJ. 1935 American Druggist Price book. Company in New York in 1912 (Druggist Circular). Sold in bottles of 100, 500 and 1,000.
Physical Description Note: Label in fair condition, bottle appears ABM.
circa 1912-1920
Box 6, Bottle 180 Ammonium
Contents Note: Product of Parke Davis
Physical Description Note: 100% label and contents.
circa 1890-1910
Box 6, Bottle 181 Casara Comp.
Contents Note: Product of Charles Kilgore. New York listed 1935 American Druggist.
Physical Description Note: 100% label.
circa 1920-1935
Box 6, Bottle 182 Fluid Lavender Compound: Alcohol 63%
Physical Description Note: 100% percent label.
1900-1910
Box 6, Bottle 183 Diaslase of Mall
Contents Note: Lenh & Fink
Physical Description Note: 100% label and contents.
circa 1925-1935
Box 6, Bottle 184 Fluid Extra Senna/John and Wyeth Brother Philadelphia
Physical Description Note: 100% label.
circa 1890-1910
Box 6, Bottle 185 Rheumalgine: Eli Lilly
Contents Note: This preparation was sold in pints, and gallons as well as in table form. Put up by Eli Lilly (1935 American Druggist Price Book)
Physical Description Note: 100% label.
1915-1930
Box 6, Bottle 186 Rhubarb and Soda
Contents Note: Parke Davis
Physical Description Note: 100% label, Bottle is ABM
circa 1915-1930
Box 6, Bottle 187 Powdered Phenalgin Acetanilide
Physical Description Note: 100% label, screw cap
circa 1930-1940
Box 6, Bottle 188 Valerian Extracts
Contents Note: Parke Davis
Physical Description Note: 100% label
circa 1890-1910
Box 6, Bottle 189 Asafelida
Contents Note: Sharp & Dohme
Physical Description Note: 100% label
circa 1890-1910
Box 6, Bottle 190 Colchicine with Methyl Salicylate
Contents Note: H.K. Mulford
Physical Description Note: 100% label screw cap
circa 1920-1940
Box 6, Bottle 191 Sedative: Baer
Contents Note: Eli Lilly
Physical Description Note: 100% with staining.
circa 1915-1930
Box 6, Bottle 192 Caffeine Citrata: E.R. Squibb and Sons
Physical Description Note: 100% label.
circa 1890-1910
Box 6, Bottle 193 Novaspirin/Winthrop Chemical Co.
Contents Note: Listed 1935 American Druggist Price Book
Physical Description Note: 100% label.
circa 1920-1940
Box 6, Bottle 194 Spleen Desiccated/ Armour Company
Contents Note: Armour specialized in these offering a wide range of powders, capsules and tablets of kidney, brain, ovarian, pituitary, liver, bone marrow, and others.
Physical Description Note: 100% label.
circa 1890-1915
Box 6, Bottle 195 Thyroid Glands Desiccated/ Lilly and Company
Contents Note: Listed 1916 Druggist Circular. Eighty cents per bottle.
Physical Description Note: 95% label stained.
circa 1920-1930
Box 6, Bottle 196 Parke Davis, Calcium Sulphide
Contents Note: Parke Davis
Physical Description Note: 100% label.
circa 1920-1930
Box 6, Bottle 197 Sodium Benzoate
Contents Note: Parke Davis
Physical Description Note: 100% label.
circa 1920-1930
Box 6, Bottle 198 Sodium Bromide
Contents Note: Parke Davis
Physical Description Note: 100% label.
circa 1890-1910
Box 6, Bottle 199 5% Thyroid Nucleo-Protein Tablets
Contents Note: Zelein Company New York
Physical Description Note: 100% label.
circa 1890-1910
Box 6, Bottle 200 Corpora Lutea
Contents Note: Parke Davis
Physical Description Note: 100% label.
circa 1890-1910
Box 6, Bottle 201 Creosote
Physical Description Note: Partial label.
circa 1890-1910
Box 6, Bottle 202 Pheno Barbidon
Physical Description Note: 100% label stained.
circa 1890-1910
Box 6, Bottle 203 Calomel and Sodium Bicarbonate
Physical Description Note: 100% label.
circa 1890-1915
Box 6, Bottle 204 Mixed Treatment /Potassium, Syrup Ferrons Iodide
Contents Note: Parke Davis
Physical Description Note: 100% label contents and cork wrapper.
circa 1890-1910
Box 6, Bottle 205 Blue Mass/ Sharpe and Dohme / Baltimore
Physical Description Note: 100% label, ABM
circa 1920-1930
Box 6, Bottle 206 Phenacetin
Contents Note: Parke Davis
Physical Description Note: 100% label, ABM
circa 1920-1930
Box 6, Bottle 207 Kemozane Antiseptic
Contents Note: Non Poisonous Kemozone Tablets The Super-Healing Antiseptic for external and internal use, Sterling Chemical Corp, New York, U.S.A.
Physical Description Note: 100% label, screw cap
circa 1920-1940
Box 7, Bottle 208 Digitulis Purpurea
Contents Note: Photo missing.
Box 7, Bottle 209 Calomelg%4o. 354
Contents Note: Photo missing.
Box 7, Bottle 210 Calomel / No. 34
Contents Note: Photo missing.
Box 7, Bottle 211 Thigenol Roche
Physical Description Note: 98% label and contents.
circa 1890-1910
Box 7, Bottle 212 Sal-Ethyl Carbonate with Amidopyrine
Contents Note: Parke Davis
Physical Description Note: 100% label, ABM
circa 1920-1930
Box 7, Bottle 213 Salacin
Contents Note: Lilly
Physical Description Note: label stained
circa 1890-1910
Box 7, Bottle 214 Phenol-phtalen
Contents Note: Parke Davis
Physical Description Note: 99% label
circa 1890-1910
Box 7, Bottle 215 Corpora Lutea Duplicates
Contents Note: Parke Davis
Physical Description Note: 100% label, ABM
circa 1920-1930
Box 7, Bottle 216 Bismuth Subnitrate
Contents Note: Sharp & Dohme
Physical Description Note: 100% label, ABM
circa 1920-1930
Box 7, Bottle 217 Ox Gall. U.S.P. "Medicamela Vera"
Contents Note: Parke Davis
Physical Description Note: 100% label, screw cap
circa 1930-1940
Box 7, Bottle 218 Asafedita No. 83
Contents Note: Lilly
Physical Description Note: 100% label stained
circa 1890-1910
Box 7, Bottle 219 Dinner (Lady Webster) / Aloe, Mastic, Red Rose
Contents Note: Parke Davis
Physical Description Note: 100% label, ABM
circa 1920-1930
Box 7, Bottle 220 Pituitary Tablets
Contents Note: Lilly
Physical Description Note: 100% label
circa 1890-1910
Box 7, Bottle 221 Ichthyol No. 867
Contents Note: Parke Davis
Physical Description Note: 100% label
circa 1890-1915
Box 7, Bottle 222 Coryza Kenyon without Morphine
Contents Note: Lilly
Physical Description Note: 100% label and neck label
circa 1890-1910
Box 7, Bottle 223 Hematic Tonic
Physical Description Note: 100% label, ABM
circa 1920-1930
Box 7, Bottle 224 Cascara Comp. Tablets/ A Tonic Laxative
Contents Note: Kilgore's
Physical Description Note: 100% label partial box, ABM
circa 1920-1930
Box 7, Bottle 225 Rhinitis
Contents Note: Upjohn
Physical Description Note: 100% label and box (damaged), ABM
circa 1920-1930
Box 7, Bottle 226 Blue Mas / 5 Grains
Contents Note: Sharp & Dohme
Physical Description Note: 100% label
circa 1890-1910
Box 7, Bottle 227 Abasin / Winthrop Company
Physical Description Note: label and box, ABM
circa 1920-1930
Box 7, Bottle 228 Aloin Strychnine Belladona and Cascara No. 1
Contents Note: Lilly
Physical Description Note: 100% label
circa 1890-1910
Box 7, Bottle 229 Tonic (Aiken)
Contents Note: Sharp & Dohme
Physical Description Note: 100% label stained
circa 1890-1910
Box 7, Bottle 230 Blaud 3 Grains
Contents Note: Parke Davis
Physical Description Note: 100% label stained
circa 1890-1910
Box 7, Bottle 231 Cascara Sagiada
Contents Note: Wyeth & Co.
Physical Description Note: 100% label
circa 1890-1910
Box 7, Bottle 232 Cactus Compound (Poison)
Contents Note: Cactus Compound (Poison)
Physical Description Note: 100% label box
circa 1890-1910
Box 7, Bottle 233 Triturates / Heart Stimulant/ No. 1
Physical Description Note: 100% label stained
circa 1890-1910
Box 7, Bottle 234 Three Iodides/ No. 153
Physical Description Note: 100% label
circa 1890-1910
Box 7, Bottle 235 Anabolin
Physical Description Note: 100% label and box
circa 1920-1930
Box 7, Bottle 236 Digipuratum Poison
Physical Description Note: 100% label and box
circa 1910-1930
Box 7, Bottle 237 PanCrobilin Pills
Physical Description Note: 100% label stained
circa 1890-1910
Box 7, Bottle 238 Calomel Sodium Bicarbonate No. 649
Physical Description Note: 100% label stained
circa 1890-1910
Box 7, Bottle 239 Calomel No. 35
Contents Note: Two bottles.
Physical Description Note: 100% labels one stained
circa 1910-1920
Box 7, Bottle 240 Phosferine 4.5 Alcohol
Box 7, Bottle 241 Bismuth Duplicate
Contents Note: Sharp & Dohme
Physical Description Note: 100% label
circa 1910-1930
Box 7, Bottle 242 Phenolphthalein
Physical Description Note: 100% label some stain
circa 1910-1930

Series 3. Objects

Container Description Date
Box 7, Object A1 Dr Hales tin with tax stamp
Physical Description Note: Paint in poor condition.
Box 7, Object A2 C. I Grizwold's Family Salve or plaster
Contents Note: Listed 1912 Druggist Circular. Sisson Drug Co. Main St. Hartford, CT
Box 7, Object A3 Dr. Hobson's dermazema soap, a splendid shampoo
Box 7, Object A4 Lady Line Antiseptic Suppositories. Local treatment for the cure of inflammation. (advertisement mounted on a wooden plaque)
Box 7, Object A5 Thermometer
Box 7, Object A6 Dr. King's Star Crown Pennroyal Pills
Contents Note: Listed 1912 Druggist Circular... maker not listed
Binder 1, Slide A7 Old medicine bottle case with three bottles
Binder 1, Slide A8 Laudanum labels
Binder 1, Slide A9 Herbal Catalog cover
Box 7, Object A10 Apothecaries Weight
Physical Description Note: set incomplete
Box 7, Object A11 Weights-Wood Box
Physical Description Note: set incomplete