Antique American Healthcare and Medical Supplies
A visual archive of early American medicine. Take a look at these medicines’ labels and bottles that were all donated to a thrift store!
A Laxative and Stomachic
Dr Gilbert’s medicine for stomach, with a vintage blue label.
Honey Tar Compound
A cure for cough and hoarseness from the 1875.
Poison Jars
Two poison jars one made in Chicago and the other in Portland.
Bovinine
Beef food tonic For use as a readily assimilable form of nourishment, made in Illinois, Chicago, around 1906
Traxo
Herbal medicine for stomach, made in Illinois, Monticello 1943.
Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic
A medicine for malaria and resulting chills and fever, 1938-1941.
Percy Medicine
An old bottle of Percy med for adults and children.
Shiloh
For coughs due to colds, New York, Le Roy by S. C. Wells and Company, around 1906.
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