Kabrina Suarez

A photo of a poster advertising F.E.G. kidney remedy. The newly discovered herb medicine. Sold everywhere / Van.

A photo of a patent medicine shop. Hagerstown, Maryland

A photo of an ad for a heroin cough medicine - a patent medicine. It reads:
COUGH
The Sum of Clinical Experience Designates Glyco-Heroin (Smith) as a Respiratory Sedative Superior in All Respects to the Preparations of Opium, Morphine, Codeine and Other Narcotics and withaldevoid of the toxic or depressing effects which characterize the latter when given in doses sufficient to reduce the reflect irritability of the bronchial, tracheal and laryngeal mucous membranes.

THE PROBLEM
of administering Heroin in proper doses in such form as will give the therapeutic virtues of this drug full sway, and will suit the palate of the most exacting adult or the most capricious child.
HAS BEEN SOLVED BY
the pharmaceutical compound known as
GLYCO HEROIN (Smith)

The results attained with GLYCO-HEROIN (SMITH) in the alleviation and cure of cough are attested by numerous clinical studies that have appeared in the medical journals within the past few years.

Scientifically Compounded, Scientifically Conceived, GLYCO-HEROIN (Smith) simply stands upon its merits before the profession, ready to prove its efficacy to all who are interested in the advances in the art of medication.

NOTES.
Glyco-Heroin (Smith) is supplied to the druggist in sixteen ounce dispensing bottles only. The quantity ordinary prescribed by the physician is two, three or four ounces.

DOES.
The adult dose of GLYCO-HEROIN (Smith) is one teaspoonful, repeated every two hours or at longer intervals, as the case may require. Children of ten or more years, from a quarter to a half teaspoonful. Children of three years or more, five to ten drops.

Sole British Agents, Thomas Christy & Co., Old Swan Lane, London E.C.

Martin H . Smith & Co., Chemists, New York City.

Samples and Literature Supplied on Request.

Patent medicine labels for Perry Davis & Son, showing view of Providence, R.I., and four patent medicine bottles / Kilburn & Mallory sc., Boston.

"Medicinal" whiskey, issued under National Prohibition Act, to James Watson, in Schenectady, NY.

A photo of an ad for Dr. Scott's Electric Corset.

A photo of an ad for "Anti-Fat" - a patent medicine remedy for corpulence.

A photo of an ad for Cigares de Joy - a patent medicine cure for asthma.

Dr. Pierce's family medicines

A photo of an ad for Dr. J. Collis Browne's Medicine - a patent medicine

A photo of the label for "Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup", a patent medicine.

A photo of the label of "One Night Cough Syrup" - which contained alcohol, marijuana, chloroform and morphine.

A photo of the label for Cocaine Toothache Drops - a patent medicine from the 1800's.

A photo of an ad for a device to make "radium water" - drunk to "cure your ills."

A photo of a coke advertisement from the late 1880's. The ad touted the curative powers of cocaine (coca plant) and the cola nut - especially for headaches, neuralgia, hysteria, and melancholy. It was called the "intellectual beverage."

An ad for "Horlick's Malted Milk" - promoted as the diet for during and after the flu. Very nutritious and digestible!

A photo of ambulances and stretchers being readied for 1918 flu victims

A photo of Red Cross nurses during the 1918 flu epidemic.

A photo of a flu mask touted by Popular Science Magazine during the 1918 - 1920 pandemic. It has a hole for smoking - but not for exhaling the smoke. Popular Science was satirizing the use of masks, which they said were scientifically ineffective.

A circa 1918 photo of two boys getting ready to go to school - this is how they dressed to protect themselves from the "Spanish Flu".