From the pages of Antique Bottle & Glass Collector magazine!
Dr. Richard Cannon's first Medicine Chest column appeared in the September 1985 issue of
Antique Bottle & Glass Collector magazine, and still continues on a semi-monthly basis.
| Medicines for tending to the health needs of infants and children - BABY AND KID STUFF |
| Embossed medicine bottles from the State of California - SOME CALIFORNIA MEDICINES |
| Kickapoo, Wynkoop's and 36 other medicines in cobalt blue glass - MEDICINES IN BLUE GLASS |
| Embossed 'Tonic' bottles, Dr. Miles, Harter's, Ramon's and others - TONICS |
| Buffum's, Charles Joly, and other medicines packaged in soda and mineral water style bottles: - MEDICINE IN SODA BOTTLES |
| Covering Dr. C. McLane, Dr. J.W. Bull's and Dr. D. Fahreny bottles - CONFUSING MEDICINES |
| Nineteenth century medicine vendors often used wild claims to help sell there medicine - NO DOUBT ABOUT IT |
| Dr. Kilmer's, Warner's, Cramer's and other companies using 'sample size' medicine bottles - SAMPLE MEDICINES |
| Vaughn's Lithontriptic and U.S.A Hosp. Dept. bottles - VAUGHN'S, U.S.A. HOSP. DEPT., AND THE WINDOW |
| Benjamin Rush,
America's most distinguished physician, and signer of the
Declaration of Independence. Read how several proprietary medicine vendors cashed in on Dr. Rush's good name - DR. RUSH |
| More then just a dinner vegetable, celery was thought to have diuretic and antispasmodic properties. - CELERY MEDICINES |
| Dr. Cannon finds his roots in Stockton, California bottles. - GENEALOGY BOTTLES |
| Ointment's, Salve's, Pill's, medicines sold in metal containers. - MEDICINE IN METAL CONTAINERS: CANNON'S SALVE AND OTHERS |
| E.P. Comstock and his famous Morse's Indian Root Pills - SMALL BOTTLE, LARGE FABRICATION |
| Bottles of opaque white or milk glass were used in the 19th century for cosmetics, drugs, and bitters - MILK GLASS BOTTLES |
| Elixirs are alcohol and water solutions of
medicinal substances sweetened and flavored to mask disagreeable odors and tastes of things dissolved in them - LIFE GIVING ELIXIRS AND TINCTURES |
Two medicines having a special curative power against a single disease - SPECIFIC: BAKER'S AND LAKE'S |
When roots, leaves, and barks were the principal means of treating diseases with drugs - HERBAL REMEDIES |
Sarsaparilla bottles with the word Honduras embossed on them - HONDURAS SARSAPARILLA |
Learn all about U.S.A. Hosp. Dept. bottles - CIVIL WAR MEDICINE IN GLASS |
| All about John Moffat, George Pierce and the bitters bottles they produced in the 1840's - MOFFAT'S AND PIERCE'S BITTERS |
| Dr. Cannon tell you how letters to libraries and historical societies help in article research - MEDICINE BOTTLE RESEARCH |
| Nathan Tucker's cure for asthma, hay fever and all catarral diseases of the respiratory organs! - TUCKER'S ASTHMA SPECIFIC |
| Antique bottles from the Dakota Territory - DAKOTA TERRITORY |
| Stories about Sachem and Shoshonee bottles, two great Indian medicines - SACHEM AND SHOSHONEES |
| Lean about pre-1870 medicine bottles with a 'Dr.' prefix - PONTILED DOCTORS |
| Not all patent medicine men made it big, here are two that didn't! - TWO WHO DIDN'T MAKE IT BIG TIME |
| Before H.H. Warner became a medicine man, he sold safes for a living - A REAL WARNER'S SAFE |
| The 'Hobo Medicine Manufacturing Company' of Beaumont, Texas - THIRTY YEARS TOO LATE |
| The 'L.B. Outlar Drug Co. of Wharton, Texas - MORE ABOUT DR. CANNON'S FAVORITE DRUGSTORE |
No matter what we basically collect, most of us won't turn down a good jug when it comes along - SOMETHING ABOUT JUGS |
| Eye baths were used in England as early as the 16th century - THE EYE CUP OR EYE BATH |
| Medicine bottles that fit into more then one category - BONUS MEDICINES |
| Some companies “spiced” their bottles up with a little variety in shape - A LITTLE VARIETY |
| Some molds that have been re-cut or peened to create - TWO IN ONE |
Hood's, Ayer's, DaCosta's and other - MEDICINES WITH ARCHED INDENTED PANELS |
Data about three bitters in my collection - RAMSEY, CARONI AND OLD HICKORY |
Many nineteenth century patent or proprietary medicine producers had female remedies - FEMALE REGULATORS |
| The word cholera is Latin for bilious disease, and has come to indicate a severe intestinal infection - CHOLERA MEDICINE |
| Learn a bit of history about these three entrepreneurs and the bitters they sold - SEVERA, MICHEL AND HIGBY |
| Two bottles that look like they contained medicine but didn't - ARMOUR AND SWIFT |
| Sanford's and DaCosta's, both - RADICAL CURES |
| Cornflower blue color cabin counter top containers, originals or reproductions? - MORE LUTTED'S S.P. COUGH DROPS |
| A milk glass bitters bottle with a German background - LOHENGRIN BITTERS |
Two popular bottles with similar names - WISHART'S AND WISTAR'S |
As we search for collectible items we are likely to encounter the names - BISHOP AND BOOT |
| Witch Hazel has been used as an astringent, learn about the bottles that it came in - WITCH HAZEL |
| Dr Cannon explains how to repair bottles - BOTTLE FIXING |
| Finding medicine bottles is pairs - MEDICINAL PAIRS |
Pawnee, Cherokee and Dr. Larookah's - THREE INDIANS |
| Life and times of a little known Newcastle, England medicine man - GEORGE HANDYSIDES |
| The Spark's medicine company of Camden, New Jersey - SPARK'S PERFECT HEALTH |
| Gilbert's Cure for Cholera Infantum - A RARE CURE FOR A COMMON DISEASE |
| -TUTT, JARMAN - MORLEY AND WETHERELL |
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