Ephemera Collection:

Medications and Old-time Remedies

Welcome to my medications collection page.  Here you will find some very unique and interesting items, some dating back to as early as 1906.  I find it fascinating to see some of the remedies that were common so long ago.

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Doan's Pills for relief of Backache 2 1/2" tall Contents removed Date unknown	Carter's Little Liver Pills, a laxative aiding bile flow  2 1/4" tall Complete contents Date unknown
Carter's Little Liver Pills "Happy Days" booklet 5 3/4 X 3 1/2" Date unknown	Parke-Davis Caffeine Citrated 2 5/8" tall Half contents Date unknown
Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets 2 3/8" tall Contents removed Date unknown	Luden's Menthol cough Drops 4" long Unopened, still in cellophane Date unknown
Tums container with Tums 2 1/4" tall Unopened package Date unknown	Anusol Physician's Sample 1 5/8" long Contains all 3 original suppositories Date unknown
Ex-Lax tin Contents removed 1 11/16" square Date unknown	Warner's Renowned Simple Goiter Medicine 2 1/8" tall Contains most of original product Date unknown

Parke-Davis Medicated Throat Discs 3 3/8 X 2 3/4"  Contents removed Date unknown, but must be before the 1970's since chloroform was outlawed in over-the-counter medications at that time.    I found this info in a personal blog:  "The dime-size lozenges were neatly arranged in stacks of three. There were 90 lozenges in a box, as I recall. A new box was wrapped in plastic, and inside, it had a little sheet of paper over the lozenges to keep them exactly in place. As soon as the first lozenge was removed, the remaining lozenges could slide around, and the perfect order inside the box was lost."  This person also said that the chloroform had a "zing" to it and that these discs were quite effective for sore throats and coughs.

Dr. A.W. Chase's Nerve Pills 2" diameter Unopened 1906

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