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Hostelleys Quack Remedy Pharmacy Bottle w/Strychnine browse these categories for related items... Directory: Vintage Arts:Instruments and Implements:Medical:Apothecary:Pre 1910: item # 731521 Please refer to our stock # J1027 when inquiring.
Stonegate Antiques PO Box 461 Glastonbury, CT 06033 860-712-9565 Guest Book $35.00 |
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Offered for your consideration is a wonderful patent or proprietary medicine, "Hostelleys Hypophosphates Pharmacy Bottle". It comes with its original box that sports a Nouveau influenced decorative advertising label. This purported vitality restoring remedy dates to the early 1900s and is in fine condition with no damage noted to the bottle. The bottle labels are in near perfect condition while the box is missing the top and the base has separated. In unused condition, the label makes some bold claims: "As an encourager of the vital processes of coordination and intramolecular chemism the product is unrivaled. Its immediate effect is a sense of ease and comfort, followed by a noticeable increase in the patients vitality . The dominant recuperative property of the preparation is of the utmost service in all exhaustive maladies and retrogressions." There are more claims included on the label. Contains 1/64th of a grain of Hypophosphate of Strychnine to each fluid drachm....plus Hypophosphates of Lime, Manganese, Iron and Quinine. The bottle is embossed W.H. HOSTELLEY & CO. CHEMISTS - COLLINDALE, PENNA.", (near Philadelphia). A nice find! |
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