. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. I RobT TURIil NGTOJSr FouHrs INVENTED Balsam 'i"Ti||ii|*'r,l!!!1T"l '^' John William De Forest, Miss Haveners cotwasion from secession to loyally. New York, 1867. '" Charles H. LaVVall, Tlie curious lore of drugs and medicines (Four thousand yeais of phaimacy). Garden City, New York, 1927, p. 281. '22 W. B. Sissons, "Poisoning from Godfrey's Cordial," Journal of the American Medical Association, March 2, 1912, vol. 58, p. 650. '2* Edward Kremers and George Urdang, History ojphmmacy, Philadelphia, 1951, pp. 1"0,
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. I RobT TURIil NGTOJSr FouHrs INVENTED Balsam 'i"Ti||ii|*'r,l!!!1T"l '^' John William De Forest, Miss Haveners cotwasion from secession to loyally. New York, 1867. '" Charles H. LaVVall, Tlie curious lore of drugs and medicines (Four thousand yeais of phaimacy). Garden City, New York, 1927, p. 281. '22 W. B. Sissons, "Poisoning from Godfrey's Cordial," Journal of the American Medical Association, March 2, 1912, vol. 58, p. 650. '2* Edward Kremers and George Urdang, History ojphmmacy, Philadelphia, 1951, pp. 1"0, 278. Figure 15.—'s oi- Lu l Ijuules as pictured in a brochure dated 1755-1757, preserved in the Pennsylvania Historical Society. Philadelphia. Pa. According to Turlington, the bottle was adopted in 1754 "to prevent the villainy of some persons who, buying up my empty bottles, have basely and wickedly put therein a vile spurious counterfeit ; the sale of many opium-bearing compounds like God- frey's Cordial. In 1931, a Tennessee resident com- plained to the medical journal Hygeia that this medica- tion was "sold in general stores and drug stores here without prescription and is 2;iven to ; To this, the journal replied that the situation was "little short of ; '^' The charge leveled against his competitors by one of the first producers of Godfrey's Cordial two centuries earlier (see page 158) may well have proved a prophecy broad enough to cover the whole history of this potent nostrum. ". . Many Men, Women, and especially Infants," he said, "mav fall as Victims, whose Slain may exceed Herod's Cruelty . . ." For those who persist in using the formulas of the early English patent medicines, recipes are still available. Turlington's Balsam remains as an '25 "Godfrey's Cordial," Hygria, October 1931. vol. 9, p. 1050. 10: OLD ENGLISH MEDICINES IN .\MERIC.\ 181. Plea
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