Printed on top: "MERRILL'S // FOR THE // BLOOD, // STOMACH // LIVER, // AND // KIDNEYS. // SYSTEM // TONIC // IN // TABLET FORM // MAKES THE // WEAK // STRONG // AND // THE SICK // WELL. // SENDS A STREAM OF RICH PURE // BLOOD TO EVERY PART OF THE BODY"; bottom: "Strengthens all parts of the System weakened // by disease or overwork. // GUARANTEED A PERMANENT CURE FOR // Anaemia, Constipation, Dyspepsia, Ague, Malaria, // Lame Back, Difficult of Painful Urination, Liver // Complaint, Catarrh of the Nose, Stomach or Bladder, // Nervous Prostration, Emaciation, General Debility, // Female Troubles, Rheumatism, Lumbago, Sciatica, // Neuralgia and all Blood and Skin Diseases. // Price 50c., 6 boxes $2.50."
Permanent Location
Storage Room 0010
0010-A22-5 Row B
Dimension Notes
Length 8.1 cm x Width 5.5 cm x Depth 2.3 cm
Condition Remarks
Scratches and dents from use; corners of tin severely scratched from lid closing and opening
Copy Type
Original
Reference Types
Person
Reference Comments
Dr. W. D. Morton
Research Facts
Merrill's System Tonic Tablets was advertised as a cure for ailments of the blood, stomach, and kidneys such as dyspepsia, rheumatism, general worn and run down feeling. Plus boils, pimples, hives skin diseases and constipation. Sold at Merrill's Corner Drug Store. Donor found bottle somewhere in Dundas, Ontario in woods near former Davis Tannery on Montreal Street in 1976 while a student doing site surveys.