Posted 7 years ago
fortapache
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Older bottles do not have screw off tops so I figured this bottle could be older perhaps around the century mark. and I believe it is. This bottle has a cork stopper which is a positive sign. Also it was made Burroughs, Wellcome &Co which became the Wellcome Foundation in 1924. So circa early 20th century I think.
It is clear so it isn't very valuable based on color but still has almost all the label and contents. Also there is a wad of cotton at the end of the tube to keep the tablets from breaking. I am sure their are pharmaceutical collectors but it isn't a big of bottle collecting it seems.
Effervescent tablets fizz in water and are for upset stomachs. Those things never worked for me I prefer Tums and those once a day purple pills.
Last photo it is at home in the medicine cabinet.
Very interesting old pharmacy remedies & antique bottles
I love old medicine bottles. Last year I posted a doctor's medicine chest and it still has the outlines of all the medicine bottles he once kept in it. Just wish it would have came with it's original bottles.
These are soluble effervescent tablets of the bromides of ammonium, sodium, and potassium. Today's bromo seltzers do not contain bromides anymore....they just carry the old name. The bromides were recommended for epilepsy, tetanus, nervous excitation, hysteria, infantile convulsions, strychnine poisoning, neuraigia, delirium, tremens, nymphomania, nervous dysmenorrhea, etc. They took out bromides out of bromoseltzer like they took cocaine out of Coca-cola :) Sorry I rambled - that's the chemist in me :)
Makes me think of Mentos in a soda bottle! Maybe those would help for an upset stomach. ;)
Looks like the 1910s based off the label.
Thank you very much Newfld.
Thank you very much Scott. Those would be excellent bottles as it would be something not available at a drugstore.
Thank you ever so much buckethead. I looked up bromides and still couldn't figure out what they were.
Thank you very much betweenthelens. I always think of the MST3K take on the Mentos commercial when I hear Mentos.
They probably do work as bromides were banned.
Thank you very much SpiritBear. I will take that to the bank.
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Cool bottle fortapache, and would be fun to have! When my father would get home from work, or before bed, in the 1950's-70's, he would always take a Bromo-Seltzer, almost like a cocktail, sometimes even on the rocks! To sooth over acid stomach! Thanks for the post! :^)
Thank you very much billretirecoll. And thanks for adding your sstory into this.
Thank you mikelv85.
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