I was walking along the store fronts in town today. I walked past the Christian Mission building that sells donated items, i.e clothes, dusty, smelly 1980's electronics, and terrible looking wall decor. It's basically a glorified Goodwill. Anyways, I walked past the window and did a double take. Buried under a pile of electronics, books and weird Boyds Bears statues, sat an aqua medicine bottle. I never saw a bottle worth buying, let alone a good bottle in a donation store. I gladly paid the $10 for the bottle an insulator I found beside it. The bottle is embossed:
Dr. D. Jayne's / Tonic Vermifuge / 242 Chest. St. Phila.
It was manufactured to kill round worms, calm an acidic stomach, flatulence, and wind colic. The contents were interesting as well. The national Museum of American History lists a few ingredients. Most are unpronounceable herbs, and the the final ingredient showed up. Alcohol. Guess how much was in there? Not 50%, not 60% not even 75%. It contained 95% alcohol. Yikes! That would kill off anything!
And here is the insulator.
Dr. D. Jayne's / Tonic Vermifuge / 242 Chest. St. Phila.
It was manufactured to kill round worms, calm an acidic stomach, flatulence, and wind colic. The contents were interesting as well. The national Museum of American History lists a few ingredients. Most are unpronounceable herbs, and the the final ingredient showed up. Alcohol. Guess how much was in there? Not 50%, not 60% not even 75%. It contained 95% alcohol. Yikes! That would kill off anything!
And here is the insulator.
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