Rectangular clear glass bottle with flat corners and rounded shoulders that taper into a wide neck ending in a collar with protruding cork stopper stuck in closure; tan label on front of bottle; embossed numer ten on bottom; one quarter full of brown liquid contents.
Rectangular clear glass bottle with flat corners and rounded shoulders that taper into a wide neck ending in a collar with protruding cork stopper stuck in closure; tan label on front of bottle; embossed numer ten on bottom; one quarter full of brown liquid contents.
Printed on label: "LUYTIES TINCTURE // CHIONANTHUS // ALCOHOL 42% // Principal Indications: Jaundice, inflammatory // conditions of the liver and spleen; bilious, sick head- // aches. Dirty, sallow, yellowish skin. Clay-colored // stools, high colored urine, tenderness and pain in // region of liver. // Usual Dose: 5 drops of Luyties' Tincture of // Chionanthus in a little water, 3 times a day. // LUYTIES PHARMACAL COMPANY, ST. LOUIS, MO."; raised on bottom of bottle: "10".
"Family Business: Luyties Pharmacal Started in 1852", By William Flannery Of the Post-Dispatch, St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO): https://www.questia.com/newspaper/1P2-32893433/family-business-luyties-pharmacal-started-in-1852
Research Facts
This bottle is an example of a “French Square”. In the late 1860s, a pharmacist from Philadelphia, Thomas Wiegand recommended French Squares for the elegance of their shape, strength, and the “facility and economy of space with which they can be packed together.”
This type of bottle was manufactured until the 1920s. This bottle style was frequently made for homeopathic pharmacists like P. H. Mallen and Company, Chicago.
Dr. Herman Luyties started Luyties Pharmacal Co. in 1853 based in St. Louis. The company specializes in homeopathic drugs, based on the principle of "like cures like".
Chionanthus Virginica, commonly known as the Fringe Tree, is commonly found in the American South, principally Georgia and Tennessee. It is a white flowering tree, the name coming from the Greek words for snow (chion) and flower (anthus). It was originally used for fevers, but became used more for jaundice and similar problems as more effective fever remedies took its place. The part of the tree used in medicine is the inner bark of the root.