. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure ii.—An Original Package of Hooper's Pills, from ihc Samuel Aker, David and George Kass collection, Albany, New York. {Smithsonian photo 44201.) mixtures to lill ihcin. In the years before the War of 1812, the British glass industry maintained a \irtual monopoly of the specially-shaped bottles for Bate- man's, Turlington's, and the other British remedies. When in the 1820's the first titan of made-in-America nostrums, Thomas W. Dyotl of Philadelphia, appeared upon the scene, this \enturesomc entrepreneur decided to make bottles not onl
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure ii.—An Original Package of Hooper's Pills, from ihc Samuel Aker, David and George Kass collection, Albany, New York. {Smithsonian photo 44201.) mixtures to lill ihcin. In the years before the War of 1812, the British glass industry maintained a \irtual monopoly of the specially-shaped bottles for Bate- man's, Turlington's, and the other British remedies. When in the 1820's the first titan of made-in-America nostrums, Thomas W. Dyotl of Philadelphia, appeared upon the scene, this \enturesomc entrepreneur decided to make bottles not only for his own assorted remedies but also for the po|)ular Engiisii brands. In time he succeeded in impro\ing the quality of .\merican bottle glass and in draslicajly reducing prices. The standard cost for most of the old English \ ials under the British monopoly had been $ a gross. By the early 1830's Dyott had cut the price to under two dollars.*'' Other American glass manufactories followed suit. For example, in 1835 the Free Will Glass Manufactory was making "Godfrey's Cordial," ''Turlington's Bal- sam," and "Opodeldoc Bitters ; " An 1848 broadside entitled "The Glassblowers' List of Prices of Druggist's Ware," a broadside preserved at the Smithsonian Institution, includes listings for Turling- ton's , Godfrey's Cordial, Dalby's and Small and Large Opodeldoc bottles, among many other American patent medicine bottles. In the daybook of the Beverly, Massachusetts, apoth- ecary,*" were inscribed for Turlington's Balsam, three separate formulas, each markedly dififerent from the others. A Philadelphia medical journal in 1811 " Democratic Press, Philadelphia, July 1 and October 28, 1824; Thomas W. Dyott, An exposition of the system oj moral and mental ahor, established at the glass factory of Dyottsiilte, Philadelphia, 1833; and Joseph D. Weeks, "Reports on the manufacture of glass," Report of the ma
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