Light cardboard trade card backed on construction paper and part of a card; front: colour in chromolithograph depicting a grandmother and two young girls putting a feather in her cap - Boschee's German Syrup and Green's August Flower; back: unknown.
Light cardboard trade card backed on construction paper and part of a card; front: colour in chromolithograph depicting a grandmother and two young girls putting a feather in her cap - Boschee's German Syrup and Green's August Flower; back: unknown.
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Purchased by Dr. M. Chiong for his patent medicine collection, July 15, 1995.
Boschee's Syrup shows up in Eaton's 1894, but not in 1901-03; Green's August Flower does appear in Hudson Bay in 1910-11; had a Green's August Flower Almanac published in 1905 and 1911 and probably began c. 1870, but end date unknown.
Material
paper: red; yellow; blue; brown; grey
Inscriptions
"BOSCHEE'S // GERMAN // SYRUP // COUGHS // COLDS & // CONSUMPTION // A FEATHER IN HER CAP // GREEN'S AUGUST FLOWER // FOR DYSPEPSIA AND BILIOUSNESS"; back: unknown
Permanent Location
Storage Room 0010
0010-G Chiong Trade Cards Binder A
Dimension Notes
Length: 11.6 cm. x Width: 8.5 cm.
Condition Remarks
Pencil writing on top left margin and slight tear/puncture next to it and some small dots of white where paper has come off slightly; back: because of the backing it is on, it would probably cause more damage to take it off
Copy Type
Original
Reference Types
Book
Reference Comments
"The Golden Age of Quackery" by Stewart H. Holbrook, p. 18; "The Snake-Oil Syndrome: Patent Medicine Advertising" by A. Walker Bingham, pp. 9, 82, 103, plate # 8; "The Great American Fraud" by Samuel Hopkins Adams, pp. 48-49, 180; "One For A Man, Two For A Horse" by Gerald Carson, pp. 71, 85, 106; "Nineteenth-Century Proprietary Medicine Trade Cards" by William H. Helfand, slide # 35; various Eaton's and Hudson Bay catalogues
Research Facts
Began in Columbus, Ohio; Boschee's German Syrup contained morphine and hydrocyanic acid; G. G. Green also ran hotels in California; Dr. A. Boschee's German Syrup contained 1/4 of a grain of sulphate of morphin to the fluid ounce, and because of this did offer some relief for coughs, colds and possibly even tuberculosis.
Exhibit History
Medical Archives Exhibit, Ann Baillie Bldg., Oct. 2005