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Sparkling Pontiled Children’s Patent Medicine
 MRS WINSLOWS SOOTHING SYRUP

 

Description: Sparkling mint example of an early Children’s Patent Medicine, put up by a female physician in the 1800’s.. Mrs Charlotte Winslow was a lady who for upwards of 30 years, devoted her time and talent as a female physician and nurse, principally among children. She extensively studied the needs of babies going through their teething stages. The soothing syrup she compounded would most likely “soothe” most any human or animal – it contained sulphate of morphia. She used her syrup successfully for several years before Curtis & Perkins began bottling it in 1849 for the general public (Courtesy Bill & Betty Wilson)

Embossed: MRS WINSLOWS SOOTHING SYRUP /CURTIS & PERKINS /PROPRIETORS

Height: 5”

Color: Aqua-marine

Condition: Excellent, strongly embossed, great rich aquamarine color, crude rolled lip, and open pontil..

Price: SOLD

Item No. 182

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