Old English Patent Medicines in America — John Shaqi
Old English Patent Medicines in AmericaGriffenhagen, George B.
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Old English Patent Medicines in America
Griffenhagen, George B.
Patent medicines
[98] Swarthout and Silsbee, Druggists daybook, Columbus,
Wisconsin [1852-1853]. Manuscript original preserved in the State
Historical Society of Wisconsin.
[99] McClaughry and Tyler, Invoice book, Fountain Green, Illinois
[1860-1877]. Manuscript original preserved in the Illinois State
Historical Society, Springfield.
Farther west the same familiar names appeared. Indeed, the old English
patent medicines had long since moved westward with fur trader and
settler. As early as 1783, a trader in western Canada, shot by a rival,
called for Turlington's Balsam to stop the bleeding. Alas, in this
case, the remedy failed to work.[100] In 1800 that inveterate Methodist
traveler, Bishop Francis Asbury, resorted to Stoughton's Elixir when
afflicted with an intestinal complaint.[101] In 1808, some two months
after the first newspaper began publishing west of the Mississippi
River, a local store advised readers in the vicinity of St. Louis that
"a large supply of patent medicines" had just been received, among them
Godfrey's Cordial, British Oil, Turlington's Balsam, and Steer's
"Ofodeldo [sic]."[102]
[100] Harold A. Innis, _Peter Pond, fur trader and adventurer_,
Toronto, 1930.
[101] Peter Oliver, "Notes on science, medicine and public health
in the United States in the year 1800," _Bulletin of the History
of Medicine_. 1944, vol. 16, p. 129.
[102] Isaac Lionberger, "Advertisements in the Missouri Gazette,
1808-1811," _Missouri Historical Society Collections_, 1928-1931,
vol. 6, p. 21.
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