This patent medicine were the rage at the end of the 19th century. Many of them made fraudulent claims about curing virtually any ailment. They came in the form of liniments, elixirs, nostrums, or drops. They were sold in drugstores, via catalogues or on Medicine Shows. The current bottle, B.O.& G.C. Wilson Botanic Druggists stands for Benjamin Osgood Wilson and George Carlos Wilson, Boston-based entrepreneurs since 1846. Their partnership lasted at least until the 1930’s. This drug claimed to treat: “cholera cramps and spasmodics affections, colic, internal pains, sprains, bruses and burns, wounds, corns, chilblains, numbness, paralysis, rheumatism, spinal sections, hip complaints, ague, coughs, and colds, tic douleureus, tooth ache, white swettings”, quite a list with diverse etiologies and symptoms. Description provided by Andrew I Spielman
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