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Nervine was a patent medicine tonic with sedative effects introduced in 1884 by Dr. Miles Medical Company (later Miles Laboratories which was absorbed into Bayer). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is a cognate of 'Nerve', and the implication was that the material worked to calm nervousness.
That same year, Thompson invested his $15,000 (over $350,000 by 2009 standards) to begin the marketing and sale of his Moxie nerve tonic. [5] [6] The tonic, based upon his original patent medicine "Nerve Food" created in 1876, was first released as a syrup in 1884. Aside from profit motive, it was Thompson's intent to produce a medicine which ...
E. W. Kemble's "Death's Laboratory" on the cover of Collier's (June 3, 1905). A patent medicine, also known as a proprietary medicine or a nostrum (from the Latin nostrum remedium, or "our remedy") is a commercial product advertised to consumers as an over-the-counter medicine, generally for a variety of ailments, without regard to its actual effectiveness or the potential for harmful side ...
For inflammation of the eyes, a common allergy symptom, Dr. Chase’s Old-Time Home Remedies, recommends heating the white of an egg in a tin cup mixed with powdered alum, a substance used ...
A formula for paregoric from Dr. Chase's Recipes (1865): [7] Best opium 1/2 dr., dissolve it in about 2 tablespoons of boiling water; then add benzoic acid 1/2 dr.; oil of anise 1/2 a fluid dr.; clarified honey 1 oz.; camphor gum 1 scruple; alcohol, 76 percent, 11 fluid ozs.; distilled water 4-1/2 fluid ozs.; macerate, (keep warm,) for two weeks.
It was created around 1876 by Augustin Thompson as a patent medicine called "Moxie Nerve Food" [2] and was produced in Lowell, Massachusetts. [3] The sweet soda is similar to root beer, but with a bitter aftertaste. [4] It is flavored with gentian root extract, an extremely bitter substance commonly used in herbal medicine.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday set maximum levels for lead in baby foods like jarred fruits and vegetables, yogurts and dry cereal, part of an effort to cut young kids' exposure ...
Sanatogen was a "brain tonic" invented by the Bauer Chemical Company, in Germany in 1898 and sold worldwide [1]. In the US it was advertised as a "nerve revitaliser". The medicine was prohibited in Australia in 1915 during World War I and a British-made substitute "Sanagen" was introduced to the Australian market the following year, claiming to be "identical to Sanatogen".