As part of our ongoing summer inventory project, we have discovered some curious (weird) antique medicine bottles that we wanted to share with you.
Packaged in a small and beautiful amber bottle that catches your eye, it contains a slightly less beautiful message of 'POISON'. Manufactured by Eli Lilly & Company of Indianapolis, the label identifies the contents of the bottle as mercury bichloride. Mercury was historically used for a variety of antiseptic purposes. She's toxic but she's pretty.
Dr. Clifton's Brazolian Oil! This bottle advertises relief for headache, toothache, earache, neuralgia, rheumatism, and more. She can do it all!
Anyone need some mustard for their sandwich? This mustard bottle is multi-use- for condiment and poultice, though it might be a little expired.
These Peptiron Pills of Lowell, Massachusetts, promise to 'ironize the blood' and claim to give healthy color to pale cheeks, pallid lips, and bloodless ears. Any takers for an experimental blush? Their claim to 'produce a sweet, refreshing natural sleep' could help us out too.
Lee's Save the Baby is a bottle marked with a copyright of 1939 and manufactured by William W. Lee & Co. The packaging tells us this is an 'excellent mixture containing canada balsam, camphor, oil of origanum, and oil of rosemary'. We have questions.
What else will we find? Stay tuned!