Vapo Cresoline
Title
Vapo Cresoline
Subject
Medicine
Internal Medicine
Description
Vapo-cresolene was a cure-all for lung conditions, manufactured in New York City, claiming to cure “whooping cough, spasmodic croup, nasal catarrh, colds, bronchitis, coughs, sore throat, pneumonia, the paroxysms of asthma and hay fever, the bronchial complications of scarlet fever and measles and as an aid in the treatment of diphtheria and certain inflammatory throat diseases.”
It was meant to be vaporized over a kerosine lamp and breathed in.
Cresolene was a by-product of coal tar, and was usually used as a disinfectant. By the 1940s it was recognized by the FDA to be extremely toxic, but the Vapo-Cresolene company continued production into the 1950s.
Part of the paper label still remains.
Two identical bottles of Vapo-cresolene were found in site 9Da89, in different locations.
It was meant to be vaporized over a kerosine lamp and breathed in.
Cresolene was a by-product of coal tar, and was usually used as a disinfectant. By the 1940s it was recognized by the FDA to be extremely toxic, but the Vapo-Cresolene company continued production into the 1950s.
Part of the paper label still remains.
Two identical bottles of Vapo-cresolene were found in site 9Da89, in different locations.
Source
https://www.nursing.virginia.edu/news/flashback-cresolene/
https://sha.org/bottle/pdffiles/MunseyVapo-cresolene.pdf
https://onbeyondholcombe.wordpress.com/2014/06/08/vapo-cresolene/
https://sha.org/bottle/pdffiles/MunseyVapo-cresolene.pdf
https://onbeyondholcombe.wordpress.com/2014/06/08/vapo-cresolene/
Publisher
Phoenix Project
Date
1900-1930
Contributor
Emmett Cantkier
Format
Weight: 71.7g
W: 36mm
H: 102mm
W: 36mm
H: 102mm
Type
Glass
Bottle
Identifier
p537, ACC 133
Coverage
9DA89
Collection
Citation
“Vapo Cresoline,” The Phoenix Project , accessed October 11, 2024, http://martaphoenixproject.gsuanthropology.com/items/show/80.
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