November 27, 2009
Categories: MacCrimmon, Sonja, Medical Topics
Tags:Coffin Redington Co., Digestive System complaints, Frese's Hamburg Tea, Ingredients in patent medicines, Redington & Co.
I don’t have an insertion for this because the box is still sealed and I was reluctant to open it. The product is supposed to be a ‘True Herbal Medicine’ for disorders of the Digestive System. Regulates the bowels for … Continue reading →
November 23, 2009
Categories: MacCrimmon, Sonja, Medical Topics
Tags:Catarrhozone, Chlorobutanol, Cold remedy, Cough remedy, Ingredients in patent medicines
This patent medicine, Catarrhozone, is very different from the last one—Uricones. That one had no insertion; this one has a 32-page booklet! I could find nothing on the company—the box lists Laurentian Agencies Reg’d, Montreal—nor anything about what is in … Continue reading →
November 11, 2009
Categories: MacCrimmon, Sonja, Medical Topics
Tags:arthritis, Aspirin, gout, lumbago, Pain relief, rheumatism, uricones
Uricones is the latest medication that I have investigated. I was disappointed that there was no inclusion in the box but I did find an ad on line, dated about 1939 for this stuff: “RHEUMATIC ACHES have been curbed by URICONES. Sufferers … Continue reading →
November 4, 2009
Categories: MacCrimmon, Sonja
Tags:Japanese archival materials, Japanese artifacts, Japanese collections, Japanese manuscripts
Dan Bruce, our museum’s curator, announced yesterday at the Board of Directors meeting that he was intending to increase the Museum’s collection of all things Japanese. Since the early 20th century, we have had a significant population of Japanese immigrants … Continue reading →
November 2, 2009
Categories: MacCrimmon, Sonja, Medical Topics
Tags:Baby care, Baby food, Cereal, Gruel, Imperial Granum, Pablum
What is Imperial Granum? Granum is Latin for seed. In modern medical jargon it is a “stack of thylakoids in the chloroplast, containing the light harvesting system and the enzymes responsible for the light dependent reactions of photosynthesis”. A diluent … Continue reading →