🔎 UNIDENTIFIED does anyone know the history on a the great Dr. Kilmers swamp root kidney liver & bladder cure bottle made by Dr Kilmer & co from binchamton N.Y. ??

[matthewtextor100]

Hi this is Matt again
does anyone know any history on a bottle that says the great Dr Kilmers swamp root kidney liver & bladder cure made by the Dr Kilmer & Co from Binchamton N.Y.
here are 3 photos of the bottle

 

[Mackaydon]

A homeopathic physician, Dr. Sylvester Andral Kilmer founded his laboratory and remedy company in the 1870s in Binghamton, New York. His medicines were aggressively advertised and sold across the country in bottles that famously showed the organ to be treated embossed on the glass. Eventually, Dr. Kilmer’s brother Jonas and Jonas’s son Willis took over the company and employed mass marketing to make Kilmer’s remedies a nationally known brand. When Willis was asked what swamp root was good for, he answered, “About a million dollars a year!”

Kilmer’s cure-alls contained various herbs and roots and plenty of alcohol. They did not contain cocaine, opium, or morphine, which were common in less reputable patent medicines of the era. In 1906, the U.S. government established the Pure Food and Drug Act, which put the kibosh on the sale of previously unregulated medicines that could be dangerous or that made outrageous claims about their results.
Source: https://www.neh.gov/article/dr-kilmers-curious-cure-all
Don in SoCal

 

[Mackaydon]

Adding further....... Dr. Kilmer’s brother Jonas, and Jonas’s son Willis, took over the company and employed mass marketing to make Kilmer’s remedies a nationally known brand. When Willis was asked what his Swamp Root Cure was good for, he answered, “About a million dollars a year!”
Don in SoCal

 

[robertk]

I did a write up on one I have here.