1900s medicine

Miracle Cures and more.... Photo: archives.gov Picture yourself in the Wild West of America, a family traveling across the dusty prairies to discover Frontier towns, or to perhaps settle your own farmland. While riding in your covered wagon, you greet another wagon toting medicines and cures for sale. This wagon is made of wood and advertising is painted on it that promotes products that promised renewed health, miracle cures, herbal concoctions, and various remedies. In my mind's eye -the…

Another one of my old Parke-Davis antique medicine bottles. This one's an elixir with strychnine in it! It still has some it its original contents, too!

THE DOCTOR'S BAG Keith Souter aka Clay More Medicine and surgery have always advanced during times of war. Surgical techniques are developed to deal with the wounds and injuries that weaponry cause. And medical innovations are often also introduced on order to make scant resources stretch further. In the Doctor's Bag this month I am going to focus on a doctor who contributed to medicine and surgery both during and after the Civil War. His invention of the Chisolm inhaler was one of the most…

I think I’m suffering from a touch of the vapors lately. The symptoms are clear; boredom, lack of energy, easily distracted, forgetfulness. Sadly, to get a good Patent Medicine requires a prescript…

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Brain Salt Headaches Humour Medicine, UK, 1890 Pre-made Frame at Art.com

Heavily used in WWII on all fronts of the war.

snow white *note I adore the jar I have no interest in drugs.

Belladonna leaf extract, Sharp & Dohme Co., Baltimore, about 1925. Used in a variety of medicines, belladonna is poisonous in large doses. Smithsonian Institution

Old Medical Cabinet