April 8, 2024
RARE Antique Aqua Medicine Bottle J B WHEATLEY'S COMPOUND SYRUP DALLASBURGH KY
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J. B. Wheatleys Compound Syrup Dallasburgh, KY Bottle is clean, with a swirl of residue of it's original contents. This bottle, although not seeded, offeres a few bubbles here and there. This bottle has a nice open pontil. Nice round shape, letters are crisp, and the aqua really comes alive in the natural sunlight I took the pics in. Measures: 6.5" tall, 2.5" diameter As taken from Kentucky Historical Society: "This is a glass bottle for a vegetable compound syrup. The glass is aqua with consistent cylindrical shape. It has a round skirt finish mouth and was blown in a mold. There is a pontil mark on bottom. In raised letters the bottle reads, 'J.B. Wheatley’s/ Compound Syrup/Dallasburch, Ky.' " "Wheatley’s compound syrup was a vegetable remedy made in Dallasburgh, Ky. This bottle is missing its paper wrapping, but each bottle came with a label that said, 'Wheatley’s Compound Syrup. The Great Vegetable Remedy for the Cure of Chills & Fever, Ague and Fever, or Bilious Fever. Prepared only by J.B. Wheatley, Dallasburgh, KY, and without whose signature none can be genuine (Signature). Price One Dollar.' " "Bilious fever was loosely classified as a typhoid or malarial fever of the intestines. It was considered the common remittent fever of summer and autumn and its main common denominator was copious amounts of bile. Ague and
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