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Vintage Orangeine Quack Medicine Mini Framed Curio
This beautiful framed curio is 8 and 3/4 inches wide by 6 and 3/4 inches tall.
One envelope and three powders of Edwardian era Orangeine headache powder mounted in the center.
A little history on the dangers of Orangeine headache powder - excerpted from The Great American Fraud By Samuel Hopkins Adams:
Orangeine, like practically all the headache powders, is simply a mixture of acetanilid with
less potent drugs. Of course, there is no orange in it, except the orange hue of the boxes and
wrappers which is its advertising symbol. But this is an unimportant deception. The wickedness
of the fraud lies in this: that whereas the nostrum, by virtue cf its acetanilid content,
thins the blood, depresses the heart, and finally undermines the whole system, it claims to
strengthen the heart and to produr". better blood.
Thus far in the patent medicine field I have not encountered so direct and specific an
inversion of the true facts. Recent years have added to the mortality records of our cities a
surprising and alarming number of sudden deaths from heart failure.
In the year 1902 New York City alone reported a death rate from this'cause of 1.34 per
thousand of population; that is about six times as great aa the typhoid fever death record.
It was about that time that the headache powders were being widely advertised, and there
is every reason to believe that the increased mortality, which is still in evidence, is due
largely to the secret weakening of the body by acetanilid.
Occasionally a death occurs so definitely traceable to this poison that there is no room for
doubt, as in the following report by Dr. J. L. Miller, of Chicago, in the Journal of the
American Medical Association, on the death of Mrs. Frances Robson:
"I was first called to see the patient, a young lady, physically sound, who had been taking
Orangeine powders for a number of weeks for insomnia. The rest of the family noticed that she
was very blue, and for this reason I was called. When I saw the patient she complained of a
sense of faintness and inability to keep warm. At this time she had taken a box of six
Orangeine powders within about eight hours.
She was warned of the danger of continuing the indiscriminate use of the remedy, but insisted
that many of her friends had used it, and claimed that it was harmless. The family promised
to see that she did not obtain any more of the remedy. Three days later, however, I was called
to the house and found the patient dead.
The family said that she had gone to her room the evening before in her usual health.
The next morning, the patient not appearing, they investigated and found her dead. The case
was reported to the corcner, and the coroner's verdict was: 'Death was from the effect of an
overdose of Orangeine powders administered by her own hand, whether aeidentally or otherwise,
unknown to the jury.'"
Last July an 18-year-old Phiadelphia girl bought a box of Orangeine powders at a drug store,
having been told that they would cure headache. There was nothing on the label or in the
printed matter inclosed with the preparation warning her of the dangerous character of the
nostrum. Following the printed advice, she took two powders. In three hours she was dead.
This one-of-a-kind piece was mounted on vintage velvet and framed in
a beautiful vintage style frame. It is ready to hang in
your very own personal dime museum or personal sideshow.
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This one-of-a-kind framed curio is signed, rubber-stamped and dated on the back by Madame Talbot.
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Please Note: With all of my Framed Curio Exhibits, I try to replicate
an authentic atmosphere of Victorian-era Dime Museum Patina.
This of course refers to that very special layer of age that builds up over decades,
something which I try to incorporate into all of the framed curio pieces I make.
This Victorian-era Dime Museum Patina may include one or more of the following:
vintage dust fabric, flower petals shards, glue bits, thread strands, sun faded material,
water stained, and/or smoke burned 100-year-old paper, &c., &c., and &c.
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