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BANNED RARE OPIUM 1911 DR. MOFFETT'S BABY MEDICINE TEETHINA POWDER BOX Quack Med
BANNED RARE OPIUM 1911 DR. MOFFETT'S BABY MEDICINE TEETHINA POWDER BOX Quack Med
BANNED RARE OPIUM 1911 DR. MOFFETT'S BABY MEDICINE TEETHINA POWDER BOX Quack Med
BANNED RARE OPIUM 1911 DR. MOFFETT'S BABY MEDICINE TEETHINA POWDER BOX Quack Med
BANNED RARE OPIUM 1911 DR. MOFFETT'S BABY MEDICINE TEETHINA POWDER BOX Quack Med
BANNED RARE OPIUM 1911 DR. MOFFETT'S BABY MEDICINE TEETHINA POWDER BOX Quack Med
BANNED RARE OPIUM 1911 DR. MOFFETT'S BABY MEDICINE TEETHINA POWDER BOX Quack Med
BANNED RARE OPIUM 1911 DR. MOFFETT'S BABY MEDICINE TEETHINA POWDER BOX Quack Med
BANNED RARE OPIUM 1911 DR. MOFFETT'S BABY MEDICINE TEETHINA POWDER BOX Quack Med
BANNED RARE OPIUM 1911 DR. MOFFETT'S BABY MEDICINE TEETHINA POWDER BOX Quack Med
BANNED RARE OPIUM 1911 DR. MOFFETT'S BABY MEDICINE TEETHINA POWDER BOX Quack Med
BANNED RARE OPIUM 1911 DR. MOFFETT'S BABY MEDICINE TEETHINA POWDER BOX Quack Med

BANNED RARE OPIUM 1911 DR. MOFFETT'S BABY MEDICINE TEETHINA POWDER BOX Quack Med

$ 30.62

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Maker: DR. MOFFETTS
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  • Time Period Manufactured: Pre-1930

    Description

    BANNED RARE
    OPIUM
    1911
    DR. MOFFETT'S BABY MEDICINE TEETHINA POWDER BOX
    Dr. Moffett's operated from St. Louis. In 1909, Teethina was included in a list of "Habit Forming Nostrums" issued by the Journal of American Medical Association. Then, in 1912, they consigned a shipment out of state. When an analysis of the powder revealed its contents to be opium, calcium carbonate, powdered cinnamon, and calomel, the government ruled that their claims of healing powers were false. It had been advertised to aid digestion, heal eruptions and sores, prevent a tendency to colic, remove and prevent worms in children, strengthen the child and make teething easy - and to do several other things. Parents, hoping to ease the teething pain of their infants, rubbed one of many available calomel-containing teething powders into
    their babies' sore gums. Very popular at the time: Dr. Moffett's Teethina Powder, which also boasted that it "Strengthens the Child . . . Relieves the Bowel Troubles of Children of ANY AGE," and could, temptingly, "Make baby fat as a pig". There was something else sinister lurking within calomel: mercury. For hundreds of years, mercury-containing products claimed to heal a varied and strangely unrelated host of ailments. Melancholy, constipation, syphilis, influenza, parasites - you name it, and someone swore that mercury could fix it.