Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup [advertising trade card]
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- Dates
- 1887
- circa 1887
- Collection
- Dr. Michael A. Chiong Patent Medicine Collection
- Category
- Archival
- Pharmacy
- Classification
- Archival, Advertisements
- Archival
- Pharmacy
- Accession Number
- 996001755
- Description
- Paper trade card for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup; front: chromolithograph of a mother and child; back: year's calendar and advice to mothers in English, French, and German.
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- Accession Number
- 996001755
- Classification
- Archival, Advertisements
- Archival
- Pharmacy
- Description
- Paper trade card for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup; front: chromolithograph of a mother and child; back: year's calendar and advice to mothers in English, French, and German.
- Number Of Parts
- 1
- Provenance
- Purchased by Dr. Chiong for his patent medicine collection, before July 15, 1995.
- Maker
- Anglo-American Drug Co. J. Ottman Lith.
- Site Made (City)
- New York
- Site Made (State)
- New York
- Site Made (Country)
- United States of America
- Dates
- 1887
- circa 1887
- Date Remarks
- Calendar for 1888 so made in 1887
- Material
- paper: pink; green; yellow; blue; brown
- Inscriptions
- Front: "Mrs Winslows // SOOTHING // SYRUP // FOR CHILDREN TEETHING." back: "ADVICE TO MOTHERS. // Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup should al- // ways be used for Children Teething. It Soothes the // Child, Softens the Gums, Allays all Pain, Cures Wind // Colic, and is the Best Remedy for Diarrhoea. // Twenty-Five Cents a Bottle. ..."; etc.
- Permanent Location
- Storage Room 0010
- 0010-G Chiong Trade Cards Binder E
- 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: 12.7 cm. x Width: 8.4 cm.
- Condition Remarks
- Mild age / sun discolouration; front: a few small worn spots
- Copy Type
- Original
- Reference Types
- Book
- Other
- Reference Comments
- "The Snake-Oil Syndrome" by A. Walker Bingham, pp. 8, 10, 27, 132, insert #7; "Nostrums & Quackery" Vol. I, pp. 318, 350; "American Health Quackery" by James Harvey Young, pp. 118-119, 142, 146-153; "Nostrums & Quackery" Vol. II, pp. 628-629; "The Great American Fraud" by Samuel Hopkins Adams, pp. 40-42, 180; "The Toadstool Millionaires" by James Harvey Young, p. 247; "Secret Nostrums & Systems" by Chas. W. Oleson, p. 192; "The Golden Age of Quackery" by Stewart H. Holbrook, pp. 247-248; "The Medical Messiahs" by James Harvey Young, p. 44; also see 996.001.755
- Research Facts
- Many children died from this product from either designated or over dosage; contained morphine; exact card found on p. 19 of "American Health Quackery" by James Harvey Young; started in 1830's; in 1915 dropped "soothing" from the name and eliminated the morphine, and just be a mixture of carminatives and laxatives, previously also had alcohol, morphin sulphate, aniseed, caraway, etc.; original "recipe" was: sassafrass, cedar, opium, guaiac, capsicum, ammonia, camphor, turpentine, chloroform, alcohol
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