Shaker Extract of Rootsi, Dyspepsia
Prepared by the Shaker Community, Mount Lebanon, For indigestion, dyspepsia, and other ailments. Visual motif: Children playing with a cat. The Shaker community of Mount Lebanon, NY, established its first medical garden in 1820. By 1853 it was producing 42,000 pounds of herbs, bark, and roots and 7,500 pounds of extracts. In 1875 they joined in a business deal with Andrew Judson White, a patent medicine maker in New York City. White agreed to buy all his botanical ingredients from the Mt. Lebanon community in exchange for a loan to revitalize his business. White was then able to capitalize on the Shaker reputation for high quality, pure drugs, and so distance his products from some of the shadier aspects of the patent medicine business. One of his earlier products, Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, was renamed Shaker Extract of Roots and became one of the company's most popular medicines. Shaker Digestive Cordial was introduced at the end of the 19th Century. A. J. White's company survived until 1957, when it was bought by Smith, Kline & French Laboratories who sold off the proprietary rights to Mother Seigel's Syrup.
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