Walking the river

[john glassman]

I found this old hinge mold mrs Winslows soothings syrup stick out of the mud a small kid on a chamber pot and a old handle for a knife

 

[RelicDude]

Nice patent med. some of the coolest stuff I've found came from walking rivers.

Sent from my iPod touch using TreasureNet

 

[Bass]

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup





Originating in New York in the 1840s, Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup was a dangerous concoction. Parents often did not realise that it contained morphine, and sadly, as the American Medical Times put it in 1860, were “relieved of all further care of their infants” through its use.


ADVICE TO MOTHERS!—Are you broken in your rest by a sick
child suffering with the pain of cutting teeth? Go at once to a
chemist and get a bottle of MRS. WINSLOW’S SOOTHING SYRUP.
It will relieve the poor sufferer immediately. It is perfectly
harmless and pleasant to taste, it produces natural quiet sleep,
by relieving the child from pain, and the little cherub awakes “as
bright as a button.” It soothes the child, it softens the
gums, allays all pain, relieves wind, regulates the bowels,
and is the best known remedy for dysentery and diarrhoea,
whether arising from teething or other causes. Mrs. Winslow’s
Soothing Syrup is sold by Medicine dealers everywhere at 1s. 1½d.
per bottle. Manufactured in New York and at 498, Oxford-
street, London.


Source: The Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle, Saturday 9th January 1875

Courtesy of the US National Library of Medicine, here’s an 1885 advertising image produced by Meyer, Merkell & Ottmann in New York.





Share a dose:

This entry was posted on Friday, January 9th, 2009 at 9:33 am and is filled under: Children



John, nice find on the soothing syrup. What was the kid on the chamber pot figurine used for?

Sent from my iPhone using TreasureNet

 

[john glassman]

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup





Originating in New York in the 1840s, Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup was a dangerous concoction. Parents often did not realise that it contained morphine, and sadly, as the American Medical Times put it in 1860, were “relieved of all further care of their infants” through its use.


ADVICE TO MOTHERS!—Are you broken in your rest by a sick
child suffering with the pain of cutting teeth? Go at once to a
chemist and get a bottle of MRS. WINSLOW’S SOOTHING SYRUP.
It will relieve the poor sufferer immediately. It is perfectly
harmless and pleasant to taste, it produces natural quiet sleep,
by relieving the child from pain, and the little cherub awakes “as
bright as a button.” It soothes the child, it softens the
gums, allays all pain, relieves wind, regulates the bowels,
and is the best known remedy for dysentery and diarrhoea,
whether arising from teething or other causes. Mrs. Winslow’s
Soothing Syrup is sold by Medicine dealers everywhere at 1s. 1½d.
per bottle. Manufactured in New York and at 498, Oxford-
street, London.


Source: The Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle, Saturday 9th January 1875

Courtesy of the US National Library of Medicine, here’s an 1885 advertising image produced by Meyer, Merkell & Ottmann in New York.





Share a dose:

This entry was posted on Friday, January 9th, 2009 at 9:33 am and is filled under: Children



John, nice find on the soothing syrup. What was the kid on the chamber pot figurine used for?

Sent from my iPhone using TreasureNet

I got know clue what kid on chamberpot a scent fluid holder ?

 

[yakker]

cool little finds/rescues. Interesting little figure. I'll have to look that up. Thanks for the view! Yakker

 

[Bass]

You may be correct on that guess John. I may be a scent holder that was kept in the outhouse

Sent from my iPhone using TreasureNet