the remedies of 'Jurlington, Bateinan, 

 the Bettons, Anderson, Hooper, God- 

 frey, Daffy, and Stoughton, as "Jusc 

 come to Hand and Warranted Genu- 

 ine" on Gaptain Dane's ship, "dircctK 

 from the Original Warehouse kept by 

 DICEY and OKELL in Bow Street, 

 London." "- 



The days of such ample importations, 

 howe\'er, were doomed, as commerce 

 fell prey to the growing revolutionary 

 agitation. The last medical advertise- 

 ment in the Massachusetts Gazette and 

 Boston Weekly News-Letter, before its de- 

 mise the following February, appeared 

 five months after the Battles of Lexing- 

 ton and Concord."' The apothecary at 

 the Sign of the Unicorn was frank about 

 the situation. He had imported fresh 

 drugs and medicines every fall and 

 spring up to the preceding June. He 

 still had some on hand. Doctors and 

 others should be advised. 



Implicit in the advertisement is the 

 suggestion that the securing of new sup- 

 plies under the circumstances would be 

 highly uncertain. That pre-war slocks 

 did hold out, sometimes well into the 

 war years may be deduced from a Williamsljurg 

 apothecary's advertisement." W. Carter took the 

 occasion of the ending of a partnership with his 

 brother to publish a sort of inventory. Along with 

 the "syrup and ointment pots, all neatly painted and 

 lettered," the crabs eyes and claws, the Spanish flies, 

 he listed a dozen patent medicines, including the 

 remedies of Anderson, Bateman, and Daffy. 



Even the British blockade failed to prevent patent 

 medicines frotn being shipped from wholesaler to re- 

 tailer. In the account book of a Salem, Massachusetts, 

 apothecary,*' the following entry appears: 



4 cases Containing 



I Dozn Bottles Godfreys Cordial 

 5 Dozn Do Smaller Turling Bals 

 8 Dozn Bettons British Oil 

 6'/^ Dozn Hoopers Female Pills 

 4 Dozn nd 8 Boxs And. Pills 



4/ 

 .8/ 



8/ 



10/ 



.0/ 



Figure 8. — Daley's Carminative, two sides of a 

 bottle from the McKearin collection, Hoosirk Falls, 

 New York. {Smithsonian photo 44287-C.) 



SALEM APRIL 8th 1777 



The above 13 packages and 4 cases 



of medicines are ship'd on Board 



the Slocjp Called the Two Brothers 



Sam! West Master. On Account 



and [illegible word] of Mr. 



Oliver Smith of Boston Apothecary 



and to him consigned. I he cases 



are unmarked being ship'd at 



Night. Error Excepted Jon. 



Waldo. 



The sloop was undoubtedly one of the small coastal 

 type ships employed by the colonists, and the British 

 blockade required such ominous precautions as "un- 

 marked cases" and "ship'd by Night." 



«2/6iW., April 23, 1771. 

 " Itnd., September 7, 1775. 



"* Virginia Gazelle (edited by Dixon and Nicholson), Williams- 

 burg, June 12, 1779. 



'^ Jonalhon Waldo, .Xpothccary account book, Salem, Massa- 

 chusetts [1770-1790]. Manuscript original preserved in the 

 Library of the Essex Institute, Salem, Mass. 



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