Saturday, August 26, 2006

Goode Olde Medicine: I picked up a photograph to decorate my office walls at an art fair today. It's a photo of a collection of old medicine bottles from the patent medicine era. Among "Pink Pills for Pale People" and "Linaments for Man and Beast," there's this cough syrup:



Alcohol, cannabis, chloroform and morphine. That'll cure what ails you. Or at least make you not notice. There's a reason they call them the "good old days."

You can't see this in the detail, but the directions include dosing instructions for children as young as one year of age. Yikes.

 

3 Comments:

I like vintage artwork and collectibles like these. Totally enjoyable!

By  Dr. Deb, at 10:18 PM  

My local pharmacist has some lovely collectors' items on display. I ran a couple of pictures in my blog recently here

By  Granny J, at 12:41 AM  

that sounds like a winner!

By  Nick, at 5:13 PM  

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