Popular Medicine

During patent medicine's heyday, the 1870s to the 1930s, remedies such as Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, Scott's Emulsion, Ramon's Santonine Worm Syrup, Hooper's Female Pills, Dr. Cumming's Vegetine, and Brant's Indian Purifying Extract, were a part of the average American household medicine cabinet. Remedies such as these promised cures for everything ranging from headaches to cancer.

A selection of these popular medicine containers and advertising materials are now on display through September 2009.