@ Xander, your most welcome.
xander yes. I will definitely post a review. perhaps making some samples available as well. I like to share. EDIT: Wikipedia knows ALL about Catarhh. Gross. I think…
Outbid. I wasn’t going to, but I knocked the bidding up to $20 just because I was mad at someone for bidding against me. But it appears the person who won collects antiques like shaving items and medicine bottles, so he probably had a lot more money to throw at his hobby than I do to throw at mine. Thus, we will never know Matt Johnson’s Snuff. I’m sorry, I tried.
Great find and nice bit of social history. The conmtents could be anything from morphine to arsnic - usec as a remedy in tiny doses - to chalk. I don’t think there was any regulation at all in those days so best not tried if you buy it, catarhh is snot, put crudely.
ahh, too bad. Perhaps another one will surface
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The seller was only quoting from the tube as I requested. Don’t blame the seller! Many medicines of that age contained opiates or alcohol or both. Both were considered medicinal. Tobacco was once considered medicinal. During prohibition you could get booze buy buying “medicine”. Also the famous “snake-oil” salesmen, usually just had some concoction of alcohol to cure whatever ailed you, then charged exhorbitant prices for it, only to leave town before anyone had a chance to test them!
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yes. very true. But in the early 20th century there was no regulatory agency. Pharmacology’s Golden Age! Laudinum was prescribed for everything! I guess if the drug knocked you out, they figured you were resting and would get better.
Quite a lot of teething medicine had opiates in them, to give the infant a good nights sleep, the sleep often being permanent though. In actual fact you can still buy a linctus over the counter in the UK with Morphine in it - Collis Brownes. Beloved of druggies.