What's Your Favorite Quack Medicine

[mytauntaunsbeat]

Thought this would be a fun topic to start. I get a kick out of the names of some of the "medicine" used back in the day as well as some of the interesting ingredients that were put in them.

I'll start with a local favorite, Oil of Gladness, a specialty of Moyer Brothers Bloomsburg PA. Ingredients listed as: camphor, oil cedar leaf, and linseed oil. Nothing too crazy, and actually this probably worked better than some. Pretty sure thats the original contents in this one.

 

[Harry Pristis]

 

[mytauntaunsbeat]

Fellows' Syrup of Hypophosphites, marketed toward doctors rather than the general public, also apparently contained strychnine!

 

[planeguy2]

Dr.Miles restorative nervine.

 

[ROBBYBOBBY64]

I think this was a sample sized Chamberlain's
Colic Cholera and Diarroea Remedy. In ice blue.
ROBBYBOBBY64.

 

[mytauntaunsbeat]

I think this was a sample sized Chamberlain's
Colic Cholera and Diarroea Remedy. In ice blue.
ROBBYBOBBY64.

I love how they spelled diarrhea lol

 

[ROBBYBOBBY64]

It is a letter we don't use anymore O and E combined, is a Latin alphabet Grapheme.

 

[planeguy2]

Fellows' Syrup of Hypophosphites, marketed toward doctors rather than the general public, also apparently contained strychnine!

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Odd, I have the same bottle but it says "fellows syrup of hypophosphites" instead of "syrup of hypophosphites fellows".

 

[treeguyfred]

So, bottle friends, this is a tough question because I really like all quack meds, but this one is kinda unusual so, i'll post it here.... but! I have many...so, I may post more than one.
~Fred

 

[Harry Pristis]