Surviving Consumer Products From The Patent Medicine Era
A number of brands of consumer products that date from the patent medicine era are still on the market and available today. Their ingredients may have changed from the original formulas; the claims made for the benefits they offer have typically been seriously revised. These brands include:
- 666 Cold Medicine
- Absorbine Jr.
- Anacin/Anadin
- Andrews Liver Salts
- Aspro aspirin tablets
- Bayer Aspirin
- BC Powder
- Bromo-Seltzer
- Carter's Little Liver Pills (Currently sold as Carter's Little Pills)
- Chlorodyne
- Doan's Pills
- Fletcher's Castoria
- Geritol
- Goody's Powder
- Lobeila Cough Syrup
- Lorman’s Indian Oil
- Luden's Throat Drops
- Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
- Minard's Liniment
- Phillips' Milk of Magnesia
- Smith Brothers Throat Drops
- Vicks VapoRub
A number of patent medicines are produced in China; among the best known of these is Shou Wu Chih, a black, alcoholic liquid which is claimed to turn gray hair black.
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