Antique Bottle: "A. Trask's Magnetic Ointment", 1.25" Square X 2.75"h, C.1846-1906

From the Museum of Healthcare at Kingston (Canada):
Reference: The Attraction of Magnetic Medicines," bottlebooks.com (Digger Odell Publications: 2009 ):
Perhaps the best known magnetic medicine was Trask's Magnetic Ointment made by the David Ransom & Son company of Buffalo, New York. The ointment a "remedy for pain, nervous headache, inflammation of the bowels, burns, fever sores..." was first produced in 1848 according to the patent office records. According to Wilson in his book on 19th century medicines, "Dr. Trask's Ointment was introduced by S. Bull, of New York State in 1846."
Magnetic ointments were popular in the late 19th century and were used to treat a wide variety of illnesses until the United States's Food and Drug Act of 1906 impeded the sale of products deemed to be fraudulent, which magnetic ointments were.

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