Receipt from H.A. Ingham & Co., proprietors of Dr. Ingham's Nervine Pain Extractor, Vegetable Cural Pills; paper with blue and pink lines and columns, ended with a declaration that their drugs are perfectly legal according to the June 30, 1906 amendment to the Federal Food and Drugs Act; back is bl…
Receipt from H.A. Ingham & Co., proprietors of Dr. Ingham's Nervine Pain Extractor, Vegetable Cural Pills; paper with blue and pink lines and columns, ended with a declaration that their drugs are perfectly legal according to the June 30, 1906 amendment to the Federal Food and Drugs Act; back is blank; printing in black.
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Purchased by Dr. M. Chiong for his patent medicine collection, July 15, 1995 (before).
"Vergennes, Vt., [blank] // M [blank] // Bought of H.A. INGHAM & Co. // Proprietors of // DR. INGHAM'S NERVINE PAIN EXTRACTOR. // VEGETABLE CURAL PILLS. // L.M. INGHAM // W.D. WOODMAN // We the undersigned, do hereby guarantee that the articles of drugs listed // herein are not adulterated or misbranded within the meaning of the Federal // Food and Drugs Act, June 30, 1906, as amended
Permanent Location
Storage Room 2005
2005-5-6 Binder A
Dimension Notes
Length: 21.7 cm. x Width: 12.0 cm.
Condition Remarks
Paper sun-aged and a couple of ink spots; right corner slightly stained
Copy Type
Original
Reference Types
Book
Reference Comments
"Nostrums and Quackery" ed. by Arthur J. Cramp, M.D., Vol. II, 1921, p. 599
Research Facts
86% alcohol, opium alkaloids, camphor, capsicum, and vegetable extractive matter; analyzed by Bureau of Chemistry; company claims that this morphine mixture is beneficial; found fraudulent and fined $100, July 13, 1915
Twelve-sided cylindrical light green glass bottle with long cylindrical neck and a top which is tooled, flanged with a flat top and squared edges; there is a printed paper label around seven of the panels, which lists product information; the bottle contains medication residue and has a cork in the…
Twelve-sided cylindrical light green glass bottle with long cylindrical neck and a top which is tooled, flanged with a flat top and squared edges; there is a printed paper label around seven of the panels, which lists product information; the bottle contains medication residue and has a cork in the neck.
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Purchased by Dr. M.Chiong for his patent medicine collection, from Scott Jordan (Ottawa), in Sept.1993.
Label reads, "CHOLERA // PREVENTIVE // Uses listed // DOSE" (listed) "Prepared and sold by // E. W. BURRITT // APOTHECARY and DRUGGIST, // Burlington, Vermont"
Permanent Location
Storage Room 0010
0010-A5-6 Box 2 Row B
Dimension Notes
Length: 21.5 cm. x Diam. : 3.4 cm.
Condition Remarks
Bottle has a small chip on the right side of the lip; #2: bottle contains dried medication residue; cork in bottle shows some damage/loss to its outer edges; paper label on bottle shows discolouration and 8 small areas of paper loss; label is legible.
Copy Type
Original
Reference Types
Book
Reference Comments
"Bottles" by Michael Polak, pp. 19 & 21
Exhibit History
On exhibit: Hamilton Museum of Steam & Technology, Aug. 6, 2003-15 Nov. 2010.
Soft cover medical reference book self-published and printed; medical information about people in the first section and horses at the back; 95 pages; handwritten notes on front page; missing cover, three sections hand stitched with linen thread.
Soft cover medical reference book self-published and printed; medical information about people in the first section and horses at the back; 95 pages; handwritten notes on front page; missing cover, three sections hand stitched with linen thread.
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Items belong to donor's grandfather, Dr. Herbert L. Barber, physician, in Burkes' Falls, Ontario.
Printed on paper: "THE DOCTOR AT HOME.// Illustrated. // "TREATING THE DISEASES // OF // MAN AND THE HORSE // BY // DR. B. J. KENDALL CO., // ENOSBURGH FALLS, VT., U. S. A. // AUTHOR OF // "A TREATISE ON THE HOURSE AND HIS DISEASES" // PRINTED AT THE STEAM PRINTING HOUSE OF DR. B. J. KENDALL CO. // 1884"
Permanent Location
Storage Room 2005
2005-3
Length
19.0 cm
Width
12.8 cm
Depth
0.6 cm
Unit Of Measure
centimeters
Condition Remarks
Paper yeloowed and edges are brittle with some missing, folded and or torn corners, front and back with overall stains and back page misisng areas around edges
Cylindrical twelve-sided light aqua bottle with long cylindrical neck and tooled double rounded collar at the lip; five front panels are embossed; the bottle contains no medication; there is a piece of cork in the bottom of the bottle
University Health Network - Academy of Medicine Collection
Category
Archival Items
Classification
Archival, Advertisements
Accession Number
1978.14.21
Description
A small booklet, rectangular in shape, 32 pages plus cover; the booklet lists geat things ranging from the "Seven Wonders of Antiquity" to the "Seven Wonders of the Middle Ages," to "Great Crusades," etc.; these are listed on odd pages while advertisements, testimonials and summares of healing powe…
A small booklet, rectangular in shape, 32 pages plus cover; the booklet lists geat things ranging from the "Seven Wonders of Antiquity" to the "Seven Wonders of the Middle Ages," to "Great Crusades," etc.; these are listed on odd pages while advertisements, testimonials and summares of healing powers of various remedies coincidentally also sold by the book's publisher--most commonly "Paine's Celery Compound"--are listed throughout.
Printed on the cover: "CALIFORNIA BIG TREES // NIAGARA // SPHINX AND PYRAMIDS // GREAT // THINGS" in black ink and surrounded by small, decorative stylings and pictures of subject; printed in reverse on a black background: "WHAT THEY ARE // WHERE THEY ARE"; printed in black ink, "GREAT BELL, MOSCOW"; printed on back cover in black ink: "PAINE'S // CELERY // COMPOUND // A TRUE NERVE TONIC, // AN ACTIVE ALTERNATIVE, // A RELIABLE LAXATIVE // AND DIURETIC. // [horizontal line with an iron cross image in centre] // IT RESTORES STRENGTH, // RENEWS VITALITY, // PURIFIES THE BLOOD, // REGULATES THE KIDNEYS, // THE LIVER AND BOWELS. // [horizontal line with an iron cross image in centre] // PRICE $1.00 SIX FOR $5.00. // [two horizontal lines, one above the other, extending length of line] // FOR SALE BY"; also printed on the back cover is an illustration of packaging depicting Paine's Celery Compound (packaging text is listed in illustration)
Permanent Location
Storage Room 2005
2005-5-7 Binder C
Dimension Notes
Length 14.4 cm x Width 11.1 cm x Depth 0.2 cm
Condition Remarks
The original green colour of the cover has faded and the newsprint of the booklet has yellowed with age; some water staining is visible on the front and back covers.
Copy Type
Original
Reference Types
Book
Reference Comments
"Spring and Summer Catalogue (No. 46)," The T. Eaton Co., 1901 (reprinted 1970), p. 117
Cardboard box sealed with a single sheet of printed paper and string; the box contains asthmatic compound; the paper wrapper has product information printed on it in red and green ink
Light cardboard trade card for Lactated Food; front: colour chromolithograph of a chubby, naked fairy playing a reed flute on a riverbank to some butterflies nearby; framed at the top and bottom by script describing who and how Lactated Food helps (children, infants, enfeebled adults); back: brown …
Light cardboard trade card for Lactated Food; front: colour chromolithograph of a chubby, naked fairy playing a reed flute on a riverbank to some butterflies nearby; framed at the top and bottom by script describing who and how Lactated Food helps (children, infants, enfeebled adults); back: brown writing on tan; shows trademark and picture of two rings looped together, each with a picture inside, one showing two cows and the other showing a field of grain, and some that had been harvested already, representing the ingredients -- sugar of milk, wheat (gluten), barley (Diastase), and oats; size of a small postcard.
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Purchased by Dr. M. Chiong for his patent medicine collection, July 15, 1995 (before).
Around in 1892 and was still aroung in 1911 (Eaton's and Hudson Bay catalogues); made after Paine's Celery Compound and Diamond Dyes
Material
paper: red/pink; yellow; blue; green; brown
Inscriptions
"Thousands of children are insufficiently nourished, // and must be puny and fretful. Lactated Food will // give them strength and flesh, and make them joyous // and happy. // In the enfeebled digestion of invalids, Lactated Food // is more easily assimilated than any other nutritive. // In old age it gives strength to the physical and nervous // systems"; back: "Wells, Richardson & Co's // LACTATED FOOD, // FOR INFANTS AND INVALIDS. // GREAT SUCCESS // Has followed ..."; describes uses and the ingredients/constituents in the product
Permanent Location
Storage Room 2005
2005-5-6 Binder A
Dimension Notes
Length: 15.0 cm. x Width: 9.8 cm.
Condition Remarks
Front: small stain on right edge about 1/3 of the way up; edges a little worn; back: pencil doodles in top half and stain on left side (same as the front, just soaked through) and small stain (also seen on front) near the lower right corner
Copy Type
Original
Reference Types
Book
Reference Comments
"The Snake-Oil Syndrome, Patent Medicine Advertising" by A. Walker Bingham, p. 71; "The Golden Age of Quackery" by Stewart H. Holbrook, p. 60; "Step Right Up" by Brooks McNamara, colour insert # 8, four pictures of Lactated Food trade cards; "American Health Quackery" by James Harvey Young, pp. 141-142
Research Facts
Packed in square tins saying "The Physicians Favourite ... Sure Cure for Cholera Infantum ... Perfect Nutrient for Invalids", etc.; images of children predominant since they were for children; since it had a milk base, often used cows in ads too; hovered between foods and drugs, promising to make youngsters healthily plump
Rectangular light aqua glass bottle with long cylindrical neck and a lip which is tooled, flanged with a flat top and squared edges; there is also a separate ring lower on the neck near the base; all four panels are recessed; there are printed paper labels attached to the bottle's front and back, w…
Rectangular light aqua glass bottle with long cylindrical neck and a lip which is tooled, flanged with a flat top and squared edges; there is also a separate ring lower on the neck near the base; all four panels are recessed; there are printed paper labels attached to the bottle's front and back, which list product information; the bottle contains a very small amount of Neurotic Oil which is sealed in with a cork in the neck; bottle bottom has embossed lettering.
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Purchased by Dr. M.Chiong for his patent medicine collection, from Goodrich, USA in Oct.1993.
Label reads, "A HOUSEHOLD // REMEDY // For Internal and // External use // NEUROTIC // OIL // Put up by the // NEUROTIC OIL // COMPANY. // Burlington, Vt."; back label reads, "DIRECTIONS // FOR INTERNAL // USE // [listed] // FOR EXTERNAL // USE // [listed]" Bottle bottom embossed, "W.T. & CO. // 8 // U.S.A."
Permanent Location
Storage Room 0010
0010-A5-6 Box 2 Row C
Dimension Notes
Length: 12.3 cm. x Width: 4.4 cm. x Depth: 2.4 cm.
Condition Remarks
The bottle has no chips, cracks or wear; both labels are complete, undamaged and fully legible; the cork is complete, shows only minor wear and seals the remaining liquid inside the bottle
Empty tall square amber glass bottle with long cylindrical neck with cork closure style, missing cork; tan paper label on the front and back which list product information as well as a drawing of celery bunch with a child peering out; sides are embossed with text for product name; back label lists …
Empty tall square amber glass bottle with long cylindrical neck with cork closure style, missing cork; tan paper label on the front and back which list product information as well as a drawing of celery bunch with a child peering out; sides are embossed with text for product name; back label lists usage directions in English and German.
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Purchased by Dr. M Chiong for his patent medicine collection, from Goodrich, USA, in Oct. 1993.
Embossed: "CELERY COMPOUND // PAINE'S"; printed on label: "CELERY // Compound // TRADE MARK REGISTERED // PAINE'S // CELERY // COMPOUND // A TRUE NERVE TONIC, // AN ACTIVE ALTERNATIVE, // A RELIABLE LAXATIVE, // AND DIURETIC // IT RESTORES STRENGTH, // RENEWS VITALITY, // PURIFIES THE BLOOD, // REGULATES THE KIDNEYS, // LIVER AND BOWELS // PRICE $1.00 // PREPARED BY // WELLS, RICHARDSON & CO. // SOLE PROPRIETORS. // BURLINGTON, VT."; back label lists directions in English and German: "DIRECTIONS FOR USING PAINE'S CELERY COMPOUND. // [illeg] Should be graduated to suit the patient, enough being taken to act upon the bowels and keep // [illeg], but lessening the dose if it acts too strongly: for adults, from a teaspoonful to a tablespoonful // [illeg] water four times a day, before eating and at bed time; lessen the dose for children according to age. // [illeg] of Neuralgia and Rheumatism double the above dose for the first two days, and in severe and // obstinate cases, or in any disease complicated with Scrofula, add one-eighth ounce of Iodine of Potassium to // each bottle, then use the medicine faithfully."; repeats in German
Permanent Location
Storage Room 0010
0010-A2-1 Row D
Temporary Location
On exhibit “Quack: The Exhibit that cures all” at Museum of Health Care, 29 June 2017.
Unit Of Measure
centimeters
Dimension Notes
Length: 24.8 cm. x Width: 6.6 cm. x Depth: 6.6 cm.
Condition Remarks
Paper yellowed and minor stains overall; front label is in good condition, except for small loss at top left corner; back label is missing small sections from the upper left and lower right corners, with staining; most printing is legible; bottle without chips, cracks, or wear; missing cork
Copy Type
Original
Reference Types
Book
Reference Comments
"The Great American Medicine Show" by Armstrong & Armstrong, p. 166; "Bottles" by Michael Polak, pp. 19 & 21; "The Snake-Oil Syndrome" by A. Walker Bingham, pp. 32 & 50; "The Golden Age of Quackery" by Stewart H. Holbrook, pp. 52-57; "The Great American Fraud" by Samuel Hopkins Adams, pp. 16 & 17, Hudson's Bay Fall and Winter Catalogue, 1910-1911
Research Facts
Paine's Celery Compound first made in 1872; very popular in the 1890's; bottle likely made between 1860 and 1880.
Contained 21% alcohol, also found in the U.S. (bottle Burlington, VT.), Wells & Richardson bought formula from Mrs. Paine, a Burlington, VT. widow; with natural ingredients of "celery extract, hops and coca" -- combination of cocaine and alcohol; Samuel Hopkins Adams put Paine's in the category of The Bracers (alcoholic stimulants)