ANTIQUE Mrs Winslow's SOOTHING SYRUP for babies Patent Medicine had OPIUM

Description

A
5 inch tall
cylinder-shaped
light TURQUOISE AQUA MARINE colored
antique
PATENT (quack) BABY TEETHING SYRUP medicine
bottle.  The
label on this bottle is a COLOR PHOTO COPY
of the label that originally came on this bottle, but the bottle itself is an ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand
B
lown
I
nto
M
old bottle (
BIM
), dating back into the 1800's!
Bottle Embossed
: "
MRS. WINSLOWS / SOOTHING SYRUP / CURTIS & PERKINS / PROPRIETORS.
"
Important note:   The labels on these bottles covered up a lot of the embossing but you can feel the embossing under the label and read the area that is not covered by the label.
Condition
:   This bottle is in good solid condition.  It has content stain, haze and wear (patina) but most importantly, it has
NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc.
Please s
ee pictures for good idea of overall look
.
Age
:  An ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand Blown Into Mold (BIM) bottle with a tooled lip, ca.
late
1800's
.
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:
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I believe that the "Mrs. Winslow" whose name is on this bottle, was Mrs. Charlotte N. Winslow, and it was her that originally concocted this product.  Sketchy research shows that it was possibly her son-in-laws, whose last names were Curtis and Perkins, that originally sold this concoction and are the proprietors named on the bottle.
The original formula contained morphine or opium, no wonder that it effectively quieted restless infants and small children.  Many babies overdosed on the product and died and others unknowingly became addicted to it.
Note
that this example comes with the label on it.   The label on this example just has the directions, NO ingredients, as that was often just listed on the wrapper these bottles came in.  Also, as mentioned, the
label on THIS BOTTLE is a COLOR PHOTO COPY
of a label that came on one of these but we sold the original bottle and label.   The
label does NOT mention OPIUM or MORPHINE
, this example was possibly put out before the formation of the Pure Food and Drug Administration and the proprietors did NOT have to divulge the narcotic ingredient.  Once this administration was in place and started policing the patent medicine industry, the manufacture's had to divulge (on the label) any narcotic content in a product, which deterred many possible customers.  From there, companies could no longer even produce products with a narcotic ingredient and once this product lost its morphine/opium ingredient, it lost its ability to sooth babies to sleep and eventually disappeared from the market.  This example was from the time that they were still adding opiates as an ingredient, and though it does NOT mention a narcotic on the label, the label does give directions to start out with infants under one month old,
check it out!
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