Antique HEROIN embossed QUACK MEDICINE bottle. Large, early hand blown, RARE

Description

A
7 3/4 inch tall
amber-colored cylin
der-shaped
antique patent 'quack'
bottle that o
riginally contained a
HEROIN LACED
medicine.  This is an ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand
B
lown
I
nto
M
old bottle (
BIM
) with a tooled top,
dating it back to the 1800's
.
Bottle embossed
:  "
Glyco - Heroin / 'SMITH'
"
.
Base of bottle embossed
:  "
MARTIN H. SMITH CO. / CHEMISTS / NEW YORK
"
.
Condition
:   Bottle has some light patina and age wear, including a scrape along the back ridge of lip, as shown in last picture.  Otherwise it is a good solid bottle in clean condition, as seen in the pictures
.
Age
:  An ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a tooled-top, ca. late
1800's
.
Shipping
:
FREE
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T
hese bottle contained a patent medicine and one of the main ingredients in it was Heroin, Glyico Heroin.   Heroin was used over a century ago as an ingredient in cough syrup, to suppress the cough and suppressing the discomfort that is associated with it.  Yet it did much more than that as patients came to find out that they kept using the syrup long after the cough was gone.
As they say, 'Caution, may be habit forming'.   To say the least!   Heroin is one of the most addictive substances known to mankind.
This is
one of the very few antique bottles that we know of that actually has the word "
HEROIN
" embossed in the glass
which makes it quite appealing.
It is not a commonly found bottle and these are getting increasingly hard to f
ind
, especially in this PRISTINE CLEAN condition,
check it out
!
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!
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