Antique Medicine Bottle Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery Buffalo NY C. 1890

Description

Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery Medicine Bottle Buffalo NY Original Label.
bottle: 8 3/8 in x 3 in x 1 3/4 in; 21.2725 cm x 7.62 cm x 4.445 cm
"The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
For the cure of all severe, chronic or lingering coughs, bronchitis, laryngitis, weak lungs, bleeding from lungs, public speaker's sore throat, hoarseness and suppression or loss of voice. A remedy for torpor of liver (generally termed "liver complaint" or "biliousness") and for habitual constipation of the bowels. For loss of appetite, indigestion and dyspepsia, and for general nervous disability or prostration, in either sex. An alterative, or blood purifier; valuable in all forms of scrofulous and other blood diseases. For skin diseases, eruptions, pimples, rashes and blotches, boils, ulcers, sores, and swellings, arising from impure blood."
Original contents were:
"pure water (drug active ingredients)
borate of soda (drug active ingredients)
golden seal root (drug active ingredients)
queen's root (drug active ingredients)
stone root (drug active ingredients)
black cherrybark (drug active ingredients)
bloodroot (drug active ingredients)
mandrake root (drug active ingredients)
glycerine (drug active ingredients)"
(National Museum of American History)