Depicts hemlock, barberry, elder, and oak.

Depicts a mad dog, scorpion, rattlesnake, tarantula, centipede, and copperhead.

Depicts thorn-apple, asparagus, marsh mallow, and hop.

Depicts bittersweet, chamomile, caraway, and Herb Robert.

Depicts peony, St. John's wort, aconite or monkshood, and lily of the valley.

Depicts scurvy-grass, colchicum or meadow saffron, garlic, and horse-radish.

Depicts plantain, white poppy, pennyroyal, and bearsfoot.

Depicts buckthorn, fennel, tansy, and wood sorrel.

Depicts juniper, black currant, white horehound, and coltsfoot.

Depicts mullein, rosemary, nettle, and deadly nightshade.

The label for Charles A. Wright's Origininal [Original] Cholera Balm includes dosing instructions for adults and children. It was marketed as a treatment for a wide range of gastrointestinal ailments including cholera…

Portrait of Charles Frederick Chandler (1836-1925), an industrial chemist whose research concerning sugar refining, gas manufacturing, and chemical education greatly impacted public sanitation and health.

Charles…

The label for McLaughlin’s Magic Relief from Cases Drug Store of Logan, Ohio advertises this patent medicine as a cure for gastrointestinal ailments and as a pain reliever. According to the label, the primary ingredient…

While the label claims that Wade’s Magic Oil, manufactured by F. S. Case, is guaranteed under the Food and Drug Act, this did not guarantee that the product worked. The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 granted the United…

Collection of five printed, gummed labels for patent medicines marketed as cures for Cholera Morbus, a historical, obsolete term for a gastrointestinal ailment characterized by fever, diarrhea, and vomiting. Each label…

John C. Doig began his Lowville, NY druggist business in the mid-1800s. His sons Charles and Frank took over the operation from his business partner in the 1870s and renamed it Doig Brothers Drug Store. In a 1909 ad in…

General view of two employees at work in an Agricultural Research Service Drug Laboratory, with view of assorted laboratory glassware and apparatus. Part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, such laboratories commonly…

General view of two employees at work in a Bureau of Chemistry Drug Laboratory, with view of assorted laboratory glassware and apparatus. Part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, such laboratories commonly…

Portrait of Japanese chemist Jokichi Takamine (1854-1922). The son of a doctor, Takamine graduated from the College of Science and Engineering of the Imperial University of Tokyo in 1879 and, with support from the…

Small glass Bayer orange flavoured children's chewable aspirin bottle with pink plastic cap, 36 tablet size.

Plastic Bayer aspirin bottle, 50 tablet size, contains tablets.

Small, shallow, rectangular tin box containing medicine pills. Label on front of tin has yellow background with the company name in red. Name of medicine is printed in yellow on brown background on front of tin. Tin…

Small glass Bayer flavoured children's size aspirin bottle with pink plastic cap, 36 tablet size, containing pink tablets.

Glass Bayer aspirin bottle, 200 tablet size, contains white tablets.

Plastic Bayer aspirin bottle, 100 tablet size, reads "Genuine Bayer Aspirin, Micro-Thin Coating".