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| Advertisement | Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup (1876) |
| Company/Advertising Agency | Jeremiah Curtis & Sons |
| Publication Source | The Pacific coast business directory... containing... the states of California, Oregon, and Nevada; the territories of Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Utah; and the colony of British Columbia. Also, a gazetteer of the counties, cities, and towns, and an exhibit of the resources of the Pacific coast, p. ixxx |
| Publisher | H.G. Langley |
| Publisher Location | United States--California--San Francisco |
| Publication Date | 1876
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| Advertisement Text | For children teething. Mothers! You will find Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup an invaluable friend. It cures dysentery and diarrhea, regulates the stomach and bowels, cures wind colic, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, and gives tone and energy to the whole system. In almost every instance, where the infant is suffering from pain and exhaustion, relief will be found in fifteen or twenty minutes after the Soothing Syrup has been administered. Do not fail to procure it. |
| Contextual Notes | In 1849, Mrs. Charlotte N. Winslow, a physician and mother-in-law of Jeremiah Curtis, created a formula to sooth the aches and pains of teething infants. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup contained 65 milligrams of morphine per fluid ounce. Due to infant deaths caused by overdoses, this popular product and its imitations became known as "baby killers."
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| Category | Health and patent medicines
Health and hygiene
Quackery
Commercial products |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Patent medicines; Health care; Quacks |
| Geographic Coverage | United States
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| Digital Collection | Early Advertising |
| Digital ID Number | ADV0237 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Pacific Northwest Collection. F852 P32 1876 |
| Object Type | Advertisement |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from text at 200-400 dpi, saved in TIFF format, enhanced and resized using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm software's JPEG2000 Extension. 2008 |
