Posted 10 years ago
SpiritBear
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De Bells Kidney Pills, it reads.
Most fascinating, it turns your urine blue.
This one is circa 1913 as that's when the package was redesigned.
A very interesting feature is that it tells you on the flyer to not trust all medicines, and it tells you to be cautious. They then play themselves up, saying that they don't make big claims because they want the buyer to decide for himself.
The bottle is full of yellow-green orbs, one being half dark green. The box is in poor shape and will undergo some restoration work before it goes on permanent display in my collection.
From C.W. Beggs Sons & Co. of Chicago. The top is tooled by hand, too, instead of being machine-made. Circa 1913.
BUYER BEWARE! [;>)))))
LOL, glad you enjoyed, Nevada.
Very cool! What is the main ingredient? Where did you get it?
It says: Potassium Nitrate, Podophyllin, Digitalis, Scoparius, Squill and other antiseptics.
I'd assume the Potassium Nitrate.
I bought it at Bottle Club.
Good gracious, the medicines from times past, it's a wonder we aren't all dead from those "cures"! Great bottle artifact, SpiritBear, thanks for sharing. :)
LOL, some of them did work, Katherine. Most just seemed to have alcohol or a drug like opium, though.
This one is much more friendly, (I think, LOL).