The Cuticura System of Curing Constitutional Humors

People today know the Cuticura brand as an elegant line of beauty products. But when they first began, they were your typical patent-medicine peddlers.

No details online of what the ingredients were for their nostrums.

I own one of those beautiful bottles, which is what got me interested in them.

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Posted By: Paul - Sun Jun 30, 2013
Category: Drugs | Nineteenth Century

Comments

Please please PLEASE provide dates on these wonderful ads.

Posted by Moses Lambert on 06/30/13 at 11:02 AM

Paul like most of us "Wuvies" has a continuing experience with bottles of many kinds. 🐛 😕

Posted by BrokeDad in Midwest US on 06/30/13 at 02:07 PM

Ad sources:

Baby humors: http://tinyurl.com/lqxew7c

I owe my restoration: http://tinyurl.com/m4cq3lo (Scroll down)

Posted by Paul on 06/30/13 at 04:48 PM

I assume they are not refering to good humor. Although I will say the good humor man always improves my attitude. YUM!

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 06/30/13 at 06:14 PM

Back in the day a little whiskey rubbed on the gums of babies improved the humors. Over here in Greece ouzo did/does the trick.

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 06/30/13 at 11:33 PM

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