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[Road Dog]

Dr Hooflands

 

[Road Dog]

Dr Pinkham's

 

[AntiqueMeds]

Nice Dr Pinkhams bottle. That's one of the ones on my list to get.
Do you know any of the background on those. They seem to have an odd history.

 

[Road Dog]

Thanks, What I heard was about 50 of them were found unused in the basement of a Old Store in Ohio back in the 70's. I think there has been one dug Pinkams I am aware of.

 

[AntiqueMeds]

Dr Pinkhams

Yea most you see were undug, I have heard of several being dug around the country.
What's odd is there are no ads or other documentation that I'm aware of.
It must have been a medicine sold by a travelling medicine show and not very successful.
I would love to know more about its origins.

 

[AntiqueMeds]

Found this but not sure how much speculation it is.
It does give some possible search clues though...
http://sparedandshared.wordpress.com/letters/1849-v-t-west-to-dr-thomas-m-pinkham/

 

[AntiqueMeds]

Its interesting there was a later product called Thomas' Emmenagogue Pills. This might reinforce the nothing that Thomas made the earlier product..maybe.

 

[Conch times]

Not as cool as the rest but hey, I'm trying.[]

 

[Road Dog]

Thanks for that info Matt. Does sound like the same Pinkam's.

 

[Road Dog]

Dr. Warren's