Antique Dr. Kilmer's Indian Cough Cure Consumption Oil Binghamton, New York

KILMER'S INDIAN COUGH CURE CONSUMPTION OIL - BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK. KILMER'S INDIAN COUGH CURE bottle from Binghamton, New York. It is blown in mold and has a hand tooled square band lip, lower neck collar, recessed panels, beveled corners and a smooth base. It is beautifully embossed on the front panel in classic Kilmer style and reads as follows.

KILMER'S // INDIAN COUGH CURE CONSUMPTION OIL // BINGHAMTON, N Y U S A. Kilmer, the inventor of Indian Cough Cure Consumption Oil, set up business in Binghamton, New York in the 1870s. There he developed a line of proprietary medicines, pills and ointments. Born in Canada, at the age of 17, he went to Buffalo to study medicine, where he graduated from Buffalo Medical College. According to an 1886 medical directory, Dr. Kilmer later graduated from Bennett College of Eclectic Medicine and Surgery. He received his diploma in 1875 from that Chicago Institution.

Further medical training was obtained in Wisconsin, where he studied botanic practices and still more training was acquired later in New York and Philadelphia. He set up practice and a medical dispensary in Binghamton, New York. He was shortly thereafter joined by his younger brother, Jonas M.

Together they expanded sales locally to the point where they had to rebuild their dispensary around 1882. A five story building was with laboratory was constructed and fitted with the most up to date bottling equipment available capable of filling over 2,000 bottles an hour.

The plant had everything necessary to prepare, bottle and package the medicines. Only the corks and bottles were not made at the plant. This embossed Indian Cough Cure bottle is in outstanding condition with just a tiny, shallow top lip flake otherwise fine.

Remember you are just a custodian. Unless you're buried with them or break them someone else will own them a hundred years from now. KILMER'S INDIAN COUGH CURE CONSUMPTION OIL BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK" is in sale since Tuesday, October 18, 2016.

This item is in the category "Collectibles\Bottles & Insulators\Bottles\Antique (Pre-1900)\Medicines & Cures".llc" and is located in Buxton, Maine. This item can be shipped to United States, to United Kingdom, to Japan, to Australia, to Canada, DK, RO, SK, BG, CZ, FI, HU, LV, LT, MT, EE, GR, PT, CY, SI, to China, SE, KR, ID, to Taiwan, TH, to Belgium, to France, to Hong Kong, to Ireland, to Netherlands, PL, to Spain, to Italy, to Germany, to Austria, RU, IL, to Mexico, to New Zealand, SG, to Switzerland, NO, SA, UA, AE, QA, KW, BH, HR, MY, CL, CO, CR, DO, PA, TT, GT, SV, HN, JM.

• Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
• Color: Aqua