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In the 19th century electricity was a new and wondrous thing. By that time scientists understood it fairly well but the common man on the street could only imagine at its mysterious powers. Many of the patent medicine purveyors took advantage of the public's interest and ignorance of electricity to market remedies with wild claims. It wasn't until electricity started to be used in homes as a common place utility that the electric medicines died out. |
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West's Electric Cure was sold from the 1880s into the 20th century. Claiming to be a perfect medicinal battery in every bottle. The bottles were cobalt blue colored. Sold by the West Electric Cure Company in Chicago. The ad at the right is from 1888. |
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HAGER'S ELECTRIC RELIEF PREPARED BY WM.S. RUSSELL OF ASHLAND, PA |
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BREWSTER'S MEDICATED ELECTRICITY Many people think this is a British
medicine. a sure cure for cold in the head, catarrh, hay fever, asthma, sick headache, la grippe, etc. The cure is in a bottle containing a complete electric battery, and is guaranteed for two years
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Hanna's Electro Silicon Liniment Invented by John Hannas, a self described blacksmith. Prepared by the Electro Silicon Liniment Co. New York, NY in the late 1870s An Electro Silicon Liniment was made in Spencer NY at the Emmons Drug
Store. A photo of the building can be seen here...
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CORNELL'S ELECTRIC LINIMENT DR. B. F. CORNELL EDGEWOOD MO This is a late 19th/early 20th century remedy. Made by Dr B F Cornell in Edgewood Mo. |
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PROF DE GRATH'S ELECTRIC OIL PHILAD_A "Professor" Charles De Grath Circa 1850s - Discovered at last! Greatest cure in the world for pain! Prof. Chas. De Grath's "Electric oil" : This oil is the only sure remedy in the world for the cure of rheumatism, gout, pains in the back, breast or side, palpitation of the heart, paralytic stroke, toothache, headache, cramps in the stomach, scrofula, frosted hands or feet, sore eyes, piles, sprains or bruises, sores or burns, stiffness in the joints, tetter or salt rheum, neuralgia, sore breasts, or any diseases that are sore or painful, ... None genuine without the signature of Prof. Chas. De Grath, and De Grath & Co. Principal depot, No. 39 South Eighth Street, three doors below Chestnut, Philada. Country dealers and druggists can be supplied, wholesale and retail. Price 25 cents, 50 cents, and $1 00 per bottle. An
interesting article about De Grath...
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E C ALLEN CONCENTRATED ELECTRIC PAST OR ARABIAN PAIN EXTRACTOR LANCASTER
PA These bottles are popular with collectors because of their early age and varied colors. The crude embossing often left the 'E' off the end of paste. Advertised around 1856.
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CERISIAUX RHEUMATIC ANTIDOTE OR ELECTRIC LINIMENT NEW YORK
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N W SEAT M.D. NEGATIVE ELECTRIC FLUID NEW YORK 161 Grand St 1853 |
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A. KENDALL'S ELECTRICAL FEBRIFUGE NEW ORLEANS |
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Electric Bitters H F Bucklen & Co
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HOLTON'S ELECTRIC OIL Oddly, this was not a medicine at all but a lubricant for musical
instruments like trombones. Frank Holton was a musician with the famous
Sousa in the 1890s. He had a business in Chicago where he sold the popular
oil. |
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BAUMGARDNER'S ELECTRIC OIL WOOSTER O. J. H. Baumgardner & Company, Wooster, Ohio circa 1859 Greer 211 |
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DR. C. CROOKE'S ELECTRIC OIL LOUISVILLE KY
Also made : Cassius CROOKE |
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DR LEPPER'S ELECTRIC LIFE JUSTIN GATES SACRAMENTO CA |
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Henry's Electric Ointment Dr John M Henry of Waterbury VT See Patent Medicines from the Green Mountain State
http://www.fohbc.com/ |
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A E SMITH'S ELECTRIC OIL PHILADA
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D B Low's Electric Liniment Dayton Ohio |
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F. MEDLER & CO. ELECTRO-MAGNETIC LINIMENT COPLAY, PA. |
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Dr STARK'S ELECTRIC OIL |
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J.C. DONNELLY ELECTRIC LINIMENT EASTON, PA. |
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Littlefield's Magnetic Electrifier Augusta, ME. Pontilled label only seen as Greer 1058 |
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JAFF'S ELECTRIC PAIN EXPELLER 1880s |
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Dr. H. C. Lemke's California Golden Electric Liniment |
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Indian Electric Oil manufactured by Dr F J Smith & Co New York City |
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DR. WM. DOWSE ELECTRICAL FEBRIFUGE NEW ORLEANS |
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PROFESSOR HUNTER'S ELECTROMAGNETIC OIL |
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Wright's Magnetic Electrifier Frank A. Wright - Lewiston, ME registered 1889 |
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R SCHELLS ELECTRIC LINIMENT ILION, NEW YORK |
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