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[AntiqueMeds]

I'm thinking it was some sort of solution, perhaps nicotine based to wean the smoker or tobacco chewer from his/her habit.

You give the quacks way too much credit. Most of these habit cures contained alcohol or morphine along with other random useless compounds both harmful and inert.

 

[mctaggart67]

Gee, after collecting bottles and researching bottle related industries for 30 years now, I had no idea that what were marketed as medicines back then were often nostrums and concoctions filled with non-medical and/or harm ingredients. Dr. McTaggart was no quack. He was an acutal physician, trained at university, and enjoyed a long and respected career in medicine. Yes, I know there were legitimate physicians who got into the quackery game. Still, Dr. McTaggart's advertisements for his Tobacco Remedy note that it was made from an extract of tobacco, which I don't think I'm wrong in assuming was nicotine based. Yes, I've made an inference that McTaggart's intention was to wean smokers and maybe those who chewed tobacco off their habits in a fashion similar to nicotine patches. As much as the 1800s were the great age of patent medicine fraudsters, etc., it was also the same era that saw legitimate pharmaceutical manufacturers, who used scientific methods, get their start.

 

[AntiqueMeds]

lots of quacks were physicians and respected members of society. I consider them the most dangerous ones.
A lot of them actually believed they were helping people.
Things havent changed too much, there are still lots of quack medicines for sale today.

 

[RICKJJ59W]

ORIGINAL: AntiqueMeds

I'm thinking it was some sort of solution, perhaps nicotine based to wean the smoker or tobacco chewer from his/her habit.

You give the quacks way too much credit. Most of these habit cures contained alcohol or morphine along with other random useless compounds both harmful and inert.

Another words the good stuff[8D]

 

[RICKJJ59W]

ORIGINAL: AntiqueMeds

lots of quacks were physicians and respected members of society. I consider them the most dangerous ones.
A lot of them actually believed they were helping people.
Things havent changed too much, there are still lots of quack medicines for sale today.

I was surfin the web I found this. There is some cool odd freaky stuff in these links.

http://thequackdoctor.com/index.php/tag/21st-century/

 

[slag pile digger]

good reason to post again. TWINS

 

[JOETHECROW]

Great bottles everyone.. Been missing those railing shots, Mike...cool twins!.

 

[blobbottlebob]

Great pics. I'll try to add a few. Dr. Petzold's.

 

[blobbottlebob]

Dr. Marshall's Arabian oil.

 

[riverdiver]

Here is my all time favorite find from diving, it has since been sold but was still a heck of a find undewrwater.
Dr. Swett's Panacea
Exeter NH