Comic genre scene showing the interior of a drug store or pharmacy. Apothecary and medicine bottles line shelves covering the walls and broadsides advertising Ayers Augue Pills, Hair Invigorators, Castoria, and Catarrh treatments hang on the walls and doors. Shows a practitioner shocking his patient with an electro-magnetic device. An amused employee holding a pestle and mortar watches from the doorway., Copyrighted 1872 by F. G. Weller., Title from publisher's imprint on verso., Publisher's imprint printed on verso within decorative border., Tan mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William Helfand.
Creator
Weller, F. G. (Franklin G.), 1833-1877
Date
c1872
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Miscellaneous - Weller [P.2009.13.1]
Patent medicine bottle made in amber glass. Reads along the side of the bottle, Dr. H.S. Thacher’s Cholera Mixture Chattanooga, Tenn. Diamond embossed on the base. Henry Savage Thacher (1826-1898) was a chemist and apothecary who founded the Thacher Medicine Company in 1890. John Lupton bought the company in 1910, and the FDA later shut it down in the 1930s. The American Medicine Association and the federal government declared Dr. Thacher’s medicines to be quackery, that they made false and fraudulent claims, and that the ingredients were misbranded., Gift of Charles E. Rosenberg, 2017.
