2014.013

Lukacs, Claire

Gift

Museum Collections. Gift of a friend of the Museum.

1873 - 1890

Date: 1873-1890

Good

Notes: Objects 2014.013.0116 All printed text on container ==== Patented Sept 23d, 1873 ---- Compound Talcum (Magnesia Silicata) Baby Powder To Soften and Preserve The Skin. For Babies And Adults ---- Manufactured by Julius Fehr, Pharmaceutist Hoboken, N.J. ---- [text starting on left panel and continuing on front and concluding on right panel] Year 1873 by J. Fehr in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D.C. --- [band running around foot of tube] We Cheerfully Invite The Profession and Public to Criticism and Inquiry ==== Direction: --- Powder your baby every time after washing with THE COMPOUND TALCUM which will absorb all moisture from the Skin, and cool and soften the same and avoid all possibi- ity to get sore or chafed. It will prevent Prickly Heat, Hives, Nettlerash, Chicken Pox, etc. and all those annoying minor skin affections. ADULTS use it in the same manner. -- J. Fehr, M.D. Hoboken, N.J. ==== [panel on back with text running up] The "Compound Talcum" is pure white. Peculiar influences may give it a tint, but can not alter its properties. Keep dry. ==== [left panel] This COMPOUND CARBOLIC TALCUM by its antiseptic and antizumotic properties will prevent in a great measure all Contagious Diseases. viz: MEASLES, SCARLATINA, WHOOPING COUGH, DIPTHERIA, SCURVY, SMALL POX, etc., beside the MALARIAL FEVERS, and will not be less useful in the treatment of the same. It is approved by our highest medical authorities. See Circular. ===== ===== [top] Shake The Talcum Through These Holes -- Don't Break The Box ==== [bottom] BOTTOM. PERFUMED -- Do not break the box Shake through the perforated part of it. [end] ==== ==== (Text below is Fehr's patent as published on page 712 of Specifications and Drawings of Patents Issued from the U.S. Patent Office, 1873.) SPECIFICATIONS OF PATENTS—September 23, 1873. 144,133. Medical Compounds or Powders for Infants. Julius Fehr, Hoboken, N. J. [Filed Sept. 12, 1873.] To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, Julius Fehr, of Hoboken, in the county of Hudson and State of Now Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Medical Compound; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same. This invention relates to a medical compound made of silicate of magnesia, carbolic acid, and oxide of zinc, which, by its antiseptic and antizymotic properties, serves, in a great measure, to counteract contagion. In preparing my powder I take of silicate of magnesia one thousand parts; carbolic acid, one part, and, mixing them together, I add of the remaining ingredient, oxide of zinc, one-fifth part. This proportion may, however, be altered, as dictated by the nature and complaint of the user, and the oxide of zinc may be omitted, or added only in aggravated cases, or for the use of adults. When these ingredients have been thoroughly commingled my compound or powder is ready for use, and by applying the same on the sensitive parts of the human body such parts will be kept pure and from from putrefaction. My powder is particularly intended for infants, and the same will be found of advantage for the prevention of small pox, measles, scarlatina, whooping-cough, diphtheria, fever of all kinds, prickly-heat, hives, mumps, ery-sipelas, and other diseases of a similar nature. By my compound a powder is produced which is easy of application, and which is exceedingly cheap, so that the same is within the reach of all classes of the population. What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is— 1. A medical compound, prepared of silicate of magnesia and carbolic acid mixed together, in the manner and about in the proportions herein specified. 2. A medical compound, made of silicate of magnesia, carbolic acid, and oxide of zinc mixed together, substantially in the manner and about in the proportion set forth. JULIUS FEHR. Witnesses: Chas. Wahlers E. F. KASTENHUBEF. ==== ==== Status: OK Status By: dw Status Date: 2014-11-06