Archive Record
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Metadata
Catalog Number |
2005.1.215.15 |
Object Name |
Recipe |
Title |
For Sore Throat |
Date |
c. 1910 |
Description |
A series of recipes written on scraps of paper belonging to the Greeniaus family. (.15) is a medicine recipe "For Sore Throat". The recipe is written as follows: "For Sore Throat Glycirine 1 oz Acid carbolic 20 drops Aqua pure 3 oz Mix Use as gargle Twice a day." |
History |
This medicine recipe card belonged to the Greeniaus family, residents of the historic Village of Sheridan in Mississauga. Throughout history, people have sought home remedies for various ailments. Homemade and "over-the-counter" patent medicines gained immense popularity in North America during the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Marketed as balms, salves, liniments, tonics, and more, these "medications" proliferated in an era marked by lax regulations, allowing manufacturers to make extravagant health claims without substantiation. Many such products were touted as "cure-alls," despite lacking medical evidence of efficacy. However, as legislation regulating medications emerged in the early twentieth century, these dubious cure-alls gradually disappeared from the market. |
References |
"Cure Alls and Salves", Smithsonian. Retrieved from: https://www.si.edu/spotlight/health-hygiene-and-beauty/cure-alls-and-salves |
Search Terms |
Sheridan |