Angier's Petroleum Emulsion
Title
Angier's Petroleum Emulsion
Subject
Medicinal
Description
An entry from a volume of the Pacific Medical Journal shows one of the way products were recommended and just how strange (and harmful!) some of the products’ ingredients would seem from an early 21st century perspective:
- “The following treatment for chorea [a neurological disorder characterized by jerky involuntary movements affecting especially the shoulders, hips, and face] is highly recommended by Dr. L. E. Lemen, Professor of Clinical Surgery in the Gross Medical College of Denver; Health Commissioner of Denver; Surgeon to St. Joseph's Hospital; Division Surgeon of Union Pacific Railway; President of State Board of Commissioners of Insane Asylum, etc. Put the patient on Fowler's Solution of Arsenic and continue until the eyelids show distention, then stop the arsenic and administer Angier's Petroleum Emulsion until this symptom disappears. Dr. Lemen claims that by alternating these two remedies in this way he has never failed to cure the worst cases in from three to five weeks."
Dates produced: 1889-1960
Type: Respiratory
Source Location: Boston, MA
Artifact ID: P1487
Site ID: 9Da89
Glass Color: Aqua
Base: Oval
Embossing: “ANGIER”S PETROLEUM EMULSION”
Producer: Angier Chemical Co.
Source
Cook, David L., "Medicinal Vessels of the First Gilded Age (1870-1929): Properties of Promise or Hokum of False Hope?." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2014.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/6430686
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/6430686
Publisher
Phoenix Project
Date
1889-1960
Contributor
Lauren Cook
Format
18x6.5x3.5cm
Type
Glass, bottle
Identifier
P1487
Coverage
9Da89
Collection
Citation
“Angier's Petroleum Emulsion,” The Phoenix Project , accessed September 7, 2024, http://martaphoenixproject.gsuanthropology.com/items/show/12.