Old English Patent Medicines in AmericaGriffenhagen, George B.
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Old English Patent Medicines in America
Griffenhagen, George B.
Patent medicines
specifying two grades of the various patent medicines, _i.e._,
"English" and "American," "genuine" and "imitation," "U.S." and
"stamped." American manufactories specializing in pharmaceutical
glassware continued to offer the various English patent medicine
bottles until the close of the century.[112]
[109] James Harvey Young, "Patent medicines: the early
post-frontier phase," _Journal of the Illinois State Historical
Society_, Autumn 1953, vol. 46, pp. 254-264.
[110] Cody and Johnson Drug Co., _op. cit._ (footnote 97).
[111] Van Schaack, Stevenson & Reid, _Annual prices current_,
Chicago, 1875; Morrison, Plummer & Co., _Price current of drugs,
chemicals, oils, glassware, patent medicines, druggists sundries
..._, Chicago, 1880.
[112] Hagerty Bros. & Co., _Catalogue of Druggists' glassware,
sundries, fancy goods, etc._, New York, 1879; Whitall, Tatum &
Co., _Annual price list_, Millville, New Jersey, 1898.
[Illustration: Figure 13.--OPODELDOC BOTTLE from the collection of Mrs.
Leo F. Redden, Kenmore, New York. (_Smithsonian photo 44201-E._)]
In a thesaurus published in 1899, Godfrey's, Bateman's, Turlington's,
and other of the old English patent remedies were termed "extinct
patents."[113] The adjective referred to the status of the patent, not
the condition of the medicines. If less prominent than in the olden
days, the medicines were still alive. The first edition of the
_National Formulary_, published in 1888, had cited the old English
names as synonyms for official preparations in four cases, Dalby's,
Bateman's, Godfrey's and Turlington's.
[113] Emil Hiss, _Thesaurus of proprietary preparations and
pharmaceutical specialties_, Chicago, 1899, p. 12.
[Illustration: Figure 14.--OPODELDOC BOTTLE as illustrated in the 1879
Catalog of Hagerty Bros., New York City, New York.]
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