I have this bottle

[Snoop]

Its french about 3" tall pink blown glass and I havent been able to find it in any book.. it is imbossed with "Dr Williams pink pills for pale people"

I have been collecting poison and cure bottles for a long time and would love to have some information

 

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[River Rat]

No picture of the bottle but here's what I found searching.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Pink_pills_for_pale_people.png

Hope that helps a little.

RR

 

[Snoop]

Yes, a picture of the bottle would be nice. Top and bottom, if possible

I know but I have dial-up and it takes forever to load a pic and that is IF i dont lose my connection...Bottle is pail pink.. one piece blown mold design.. lip is rough,but not broken.. bottle has six sides..no seams... nothing remarkable about the bottom ..embossing is horizontal.

 

[downindixie]

Take a look at this web site that explains what it was used for and history.
http://www.kshs.org/cool3/pinkpills.htm

 

[Gypsy Heart]

First a cough carried him off
And then a coffin they carried him off in.
This will not be your epitaph if you use
Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People in time.



Thirty years after Appomattox the Dr. Williams Medicine Company, maker of Pink Pills for Pale People, aimed a pamphlet at the old boys in blue. "Out of the 1,000,000 men mustered out in '65," the message began, "only about 500,000 are now alive." Why this halving of the noble ranks? "Exposure, miasma, bad food, hardships of every description-these and not the bullets are responsible for the extremely rapid death-rate among the vet-erans." "It is not alone those who were wounded who deserve our sympathy," asserted the Pink Pill pamphleteer, "it is that great majority WHO WERE NOT, but who contracted the seeds of dis-ease in Southern swamps and prisons, and who have as a consequence lost their health before their time.

Not all the illnesses of aging veterans were a legacy of war, but there was enough truth in Dr. Williams' allegations to make his appeal persuasive. Many old soldiers with aches and pains helped nostrum makers maintain their volume of production. One of these was Henry Farrar, who was growing deaf. His "Beloved Bugle," which had led Union troops on many a victorious assault, he could no longer hear, and this distressed him greatly. At last he learned of a certain remedy for deafness. He tried it. His hearing was restored. In gratitude he gave the nostrum company not only a testimonial but a photograph. Farrar's bearded por-trait, replete with G.A.R. insignia, medal's, and Union army hat, adorned an advertisement that appeared in papers throughout the Northern states.