Posted 3 years ago
Benthere
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I have an unopened package of merchants gargling oil liniment! I would love to see what the bottle looks like but I won’t dare open the packaging. It never ceases to amaze me how these fragile items have survived intact.
I’d love to read the entire thing but upside down is just impossible! But you can easily fix that.....just edit your post. With each picture, edit it in some way such as change dimensions, then repost that picture and it will be right-side-up.
I’m looking forward to being amused by the directions....the ingredients sound perfectly awful!!
Benthere, Cool in a weird kind of way. };-)
Reading the label, your particular item would be no older than 1933.
The backstory on this product is very interesting. It has its origins as a liniment for beasts of burden, and became popular because its promoter had a store near the Erie Canal:
https://www.bottlepickers.com/bottle_articles387.htm
The long read:
https://buffalonews.com/news/merchant-gargling-oil-bottles-carried-the-name-of-lockport-worldwide/article_57ba3f11-fbd0-5dd4-ab25-07d61e4f8349.html
For you Watchsearcher, with the caveat that these instructions are probably from before the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906:
*snip*
To take the Gargling Oil internally, the advised dose was to combine fifteen to twenty drops of the oil with sugar, or mixed with syrup, and to take a dose every three to six hours. The product for animals was packaged in a yellow wrapper, and the one for humans had a white wrapper. The company said that, in an emergency, humans could use the version for animals though it would temporarily stain their skin.
*snip*
Oops, I neglected to supply the link for the snippet:
https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/findingaids/mss00429
70 proof ! Way around prohibition ?
Lawwdy -- just look at that list of "active ingredients" -- the modern day FDA would have an absolute FIT falling all over themselves to red stamp/outlaw most of them by themselves, not to mention this concoction that mixed them all together...??!!
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