Description
A full unopened case of Wheatley’s Spanish Pain Destroyer. Paper wrap labelled package holds six label wrapped open pontil bottles each wrapped in a large newspaper style advertising broadsheet titled Journal of Health Conducted by Dr. J.B. Wheatley, Dallasburgh, Kentucky. The paper labelled package features a full front green label profusely covered in medicinal claims of variations in vegetations imported from Spain and Turkey proclaiming cures for ‘pains and aches of the human family’ listing no less than 22 ailments certain to be cured followed by an etc… The label then proceeds to proclaim the certain cure for 5 ailments within animals also followed by ‘and many others’… with a final close of basically claiming a certain cure for many ‘other’ diseases of ‘Man and Beast’. A classic example of mid-19th century ‘Quack’ medicine!
5 x 5 x 3 inches
Bottle Advertising wrap – 20 x 13.5 folds to 10 x 13.5 and then wraps around the bottle
The bottle paper wrap and advertising wrap are pictured for reference only to illustrate the contents within this original, unopened, sealed old-store-stock medicine package.
