Ozomulsion Amber Glass Bottle Cork Top, late 1800s

As the 1890s ended TB was a feared disease, and cities built special "homes" for those afflicted with this serious illness. The patients were moved into these residential care facilities to receive care and rehabilitation. Literally thousands died from the disease. Many early pharmacologists and would be pharmacologists concocted remedies and sold them under different names. This bottle was labeled "Ozomulsion" and promised to cure the pulmonary disease Tuberculosis. The bottled cures began to show up in the late 1880s and were still being sold as late as 1948. This bottle originally had a cork held on by a wire. and was made in about 1890.

Size: 8.5" tall x 3" long x 2.25" wide