~ Jaynes & Co. Price List of Drug Store Goods, 1898
via Internet Archive
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“They contain nothing injurious, and in any case they can do no harm”
~ Salaspin, July 1917
via Grace’s Guide
“Replaces German aspirin”
Notes from aspirin history: Bayer, a German company, first patented Aspirin on February 27, 1900. The name Aspirin came from the ‘A” in acetyl chloride, the “spir” in spiraea ulmaria (the plant they derived the salicylic acid from) and the ‘in’ was a then familiar name ending for medicines.
Aspirin was first sold as a powder. In 1915, the first Aspirin tablets were made. Interestingly, Aspirin ® and Heroin ® were once trademarks belonging to Bayer. After Germany lost World War I, Bayer was forced to give up both trademarks as part of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. (source)
~ Be Kind to Your Eyes: Read and Write with Emeralite, H. G. McFaddin & Co., 1916
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“More efficient than hot water bags or poultices”
~ The House-Keeper’s Pocket-Book, And Compleat Family Cook: Containing Above Twelve Hundred Curious and Uncommon Receipts in Cookery, Preserving, Candying, Pastry, Pickling, Collaring, &c., by Mrs. Sarah Harrison, 1760
~ Family Receipts, Being A Collection Of One Hundred Plain, Practical Receipts Of Rare Value Including Medical, Mechanical, Domestic, &c., by B.F. Witt, 1854
~ Williamstown Trade Circular, September 6, 1856
via Trove
“Artificial Teeth fitted by Electrotype….Toothache…Cured by Galvanism”
~ American Family Physician; Detailing Important Means of preserving Health, from Infancy to old age, by Thomas Ewell, M.D., 1826
via U.S. National Library of Medicine
~ The Medium and Daybreak, August 28, 1885
The Medium and Daybreak was a Spiritualist weekly, started in 1869 by James Burns. For years it had the largest circulation of any weekly on Spiritualism. It was published until Burns died in 1895.
“Magnetic Physician”
