Bromoseltzer

Reconsidered Trifle - New Old Bottles, Limited edition ceramic cast, of antique bottles.  History you can put your lips to. 
 
Bromoseltzer Emerson Drug CO
Bottle Circa: 1888 
Origin: Baltimore MD 
Manufactured: 1888 - 2008
Dimensions: 2 3/8 inches tall 1 inch round
 
Bromoseltzer was a powder that was to be mixed with water before ingestion. It claimed to fight a headache in three ways; containing acetanilide to ease the pain, bicarbonate to relieve excess stomach acidity and sodium bromide to calm jumpy nerves.
 
Sodium bromide was removed from the formulation in the 1970’s when it was classified as a tranquilizer, acetanilide was withdrawn from the pharmaceutical market in 1983 due to “unacceptable levels of interstitial nephritis (kidney inflammation) and rise of tumorigenicity (carcinogenic)”. It is also of note that high levels of exposure to acetanilide could cause methemoglobinemia, a condition in which hemoglobin loses the ability to bind oxygen, sufferers thereof could develop a blue tint. 
 
Food Safe, Hand Wash Only. 
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