1876 Aphrodisiac Dr P.j. Griffen Centennial Exposition Sex Stimulant $98.50
Friday’s book is Kresley Cole’s (https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4428.Kresley_Cole) The Immortals after Dark Series (http://kresleycole.com/paranormal-romance/) MACRIEVE Uilleam MacRieve believed he’d laid to rest the ghosts of his boyhood. But when a brutal torture revives those ancient agonies and destroys his Lykae instinct, the proud Scot craves the oblivion of death. Until he finds her—a young human so full of spirit and courage that she pulls him back from the brink. Seized for the auction block, Chloe Todd is forced to enter a terrifying new world of monsters and lore as a bound slave. When offered up to creatures of the dark, she fears she won’t last the night. Until she’s claimed by him—a wicked immortal with heartbreaking eyes, whose touch sets her blood on fire. With enemies circling, MacRieve spirits Chloe away to the isolated Highland keep of his youth. But once he takes her to his bed, his sensual mate becomes something more than human, evoking his savage past and testing his sanity. On the cusp of the full moon, can he conquer his worst nightmare to save Chloe . . . from himself? I LOVE her series–this is a typical with lots of sex and violence but not a whole lot of priceless literary–it’s more fun that way.In the waning days of the 19thc, when America’s frontier was closing, the country’s “medical” marketplace was still behaving like the Wild West. Doctors, some without credentials and entrepreneur sold all kinds of concoctions laced with alcohol, opium and other now illegal drug they claimed could cure everything from diabetes to liver disease. Kovels (Aug 2014)
Vintage Moxie Nerve Food Glass Bottle – Early 1900s -Patent Medicine $30.00
Patent medicines originally referred to medications whose ingredients had been granted government protection for exclusivity. In actuality, the recipes of most 19th century patent medicines were not officially patented. Most producers (often small family operations) used ingredients quite similar to their competitors—vegetable extracts laced with ample doses of alcohol. These proprietary, or “quack” medicines could be deadly, since there was no regulation on their ingredients. They were medicines with questionable effectiveness whose contents were usually kept secret. http://www.hagley.org/online_exhibits/patentmed/history/history.html
Vintage Quack Medicine Bottle Label Dr. Miller’s 1890-1910 1 Pint … $12.99
The promotion of patent medicines was one of the first major products highlighted by the advertising industry, and many advertising and sales techniques were pioneered by patent medicine promoters. Patent medicine advertising often promoted the advantages of exotic ingredients, even though their actual effects came from more prosaic drugs. One group of patent medicines —liniments that allegedly contained snake oil, supposedly a panacea — made snake oil salesman a lasting synonym for a charlatan. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_medicine
Antique MISTAKE embossed OWL DRUG Co bottle Gwl not Owl, $50.00
American consumers were spending more than seventy-five million dollars a year on patent medicines by the turn of the century. Since there were no restrictions on advertising or labeling, and manufacturers kept their ingredients a secret, these “quack” medicines and nostrums often proved to be deadly mixtures…. Other products being marketed to an eager public were essentially useless mixtures of herbal ingredients based on cultural superstitions and beliefs… Effective mass advertising in almanacs, magazines and newspapers helped fuel the growth of this industry and gave birth to direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical marketing. http://www.nycbar.org/library/featured-exhibitions/patent-medicines-and-miracle-cures
necklace – LAUDANUM – ooak – poison bottle, vintage, gothic …$96.00
In the early 1900’s,… journalist(s) …exposed the false claims, harmful ingredients, and market manipulation of nostrums and their producers…(June) 1906, …the first Federal Pure Food and Drug Act was published, prohibiting interstate commerce of adulterated and misbranded food and drugs. Though this led to many patent medicines removing narcotics it did little about the outrageous claims….The Sulfanilamide Disaster and The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938….In 1937, Massengill distributed an Elixir Sulfanilamide indicated for “all conditions in which the hemolytic streptococci appear.” It contained diethylene glycol, a chemical analogue of antifreeze, leading to the documented deaths of 107 …impetus for the passing of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Among the Act’s provisions were notably that all drugs be tested… and the results submitted to the FDA in a new drug application http://www.toxicology.org/gp/fda.asp
1883 Indian Cure Antique Calendar Bear Hunt Worm Bottle Advertising $38.50
Patient medicine bottles are wanted by collectors today not only because the products are no longer around but also because they are great examples of early outlandish advertising. In fact the marketing of patent medicine can be considered the era of the birth of American ad campaigns. (Kovel)
Glyco-Heroin (Smith) CoughMedicine Martin H. Smith Co.Antique …$80.00
A cheerful heart is a good medicine, but a downcast spirit dries up the bones.
Patent Medicine Promotional. Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin Home Cook …$42.00