Patent medicine bottles

Jeremy Kemp

Sep 297 min read

Bottles 5: Daffy's Elixir, Part 1.

This article gives an overview of the evolution of Daffy's Elixir bottles during the long lifetime of the medicine, from the...

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Jeremy Kemp

Oct 26, 20208 min read

Bottles 4. John Lynch, Duke Street, St James's, circa 1812 - 1829.

Another 'medicine' from an unlikely source: this time a West Indian slave who gained his freedom in late Georgian England.

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Oct 25, 20208 min read

Bottles 3: Cabburn (Cabburn’s Anti-Doloric Oil, Cabburn’s Balsam of Herbs), 1840 - circa 1920s.

Cabburn's Anti-Doloric Oil was invented in 1840 by a publican and Wine & Spirit merchant, John Francis Bricknell Cabburn.

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Oct 3, 20209 min read

Bottles 2. Jesuit's Drops, 1755 - circa 1860s.

On 29th October 1755 a patent was granted to Robert Walker of London for "A new invented medicine, called Jesuit's drops ...".

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Jeremy Kemp

Sep 30, 202012 min read

Bottles 1. Turlington's Balsam of Life: the 1754 design.

"BY THE KING's ROYALL PATENT GRANTED TO ROBt TURLINGTON FOR HIS INVENTED BALSAM OF LIFE. LONDON. JANy 26 1754." Turlington used at least thr

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