Johns' Digestive... Not familiar with this one...

[Blackglass]

Anyone ever heard of this? When I first saw it I thought it was a common I hadn't heard of, but I can't find any form of information on it at all. It's BIM and reads "JOHNS' DIGESTIVE". Base is unmarked.

Thanks!
``Michael

 

[AntiqueMeds]

JOHNS' DIGESTIVE tablets were sold around 1910-1920 in drugstores.

 

[epackage]

Time to figure out how to search Google...[8D]

https://www.google.com/#hl=en&gs_nf=1&tok=ZFh2aOlFgVC5Sg_RBub4Iw&cp=18&gs_id=21&xhr=t&q=%22johns'+digestive%22&pf=p&safe=off&sclient=psy-ab&pbx=1&oq=%22johns'+digestive%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&gs_l=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=c046483b3e0e4ca3&biw=1024&bih=753

 

[wolffbp]

Gotta use them quotation marks! Without 'em you get a whole lot of everything else!

 

[Blackglass]

Thanks Jim, I was unaware of the quotation mark trick!

 

[surfaceone]

Hey Michael,

"First the analysis showed that Pa pay ans Bell consisted essentially of sodium bicarbonate charcoal and ginger sweetened with saccharin and flavored with oil of wintergreen.

Second Bell and Co were shown to be closely identified with another concern known as LD Johns Co the president of the Bell concern being the president of the Johns company the vice president of Bell & Co being secretary and treasurer of the Johns company and the secretary of Bell & Co being vice president of the LD Johns Co

The LD Johns Co is one of those pseudomedical concerns that obtains its capital by selling stock to physicians who are not above going into that kind of business It puts out two tablets Dr Johns Digestive Tablets which are apparently identical in composition with Pa pay ans Bell and Dr Johns Tablets a laxative pill whose composition apparently is similar to Cas car ans Bell Pa pay ans Bell the baking soda charconl ginger tablet i to be found advertised in these among medical journals: New York Medical Journal, Woman's Medical Journal, Massachusetts Medical Journal, International Journal of Surgery" From JAMA 1913.

 

[surfaceone]

"Pa-Pay-Ans Bell: This awkwardly-named papaw derivative was intended to quell nausea. Ironically, according to Wikipedia and to a lot of the herbalist literature I encountered while putting this installation of Thingamajig together, papaw contains small amounts of a natural pesticide that will cause nausea and vomiting if too much is ingested.

The references I found for this dated between 1908 and 1918. Around that time, it streamlined its name to “Bell-Ans.†" From.

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[Blackglass]

Thanks Surfaceone! I find it very cool that Dr. John was affiliated with Bell-Ans.