SECESSION PHYSIC CURE. To cure Secession and its ills, Take Dr. Scott’s Cast Iron Pills; Well mixed with Powder of Saltpetre, Apply it to each “Fire Eater.” With Union Bitters, mix it clever, And treason is warned off forever.
Union Bitters – Haven’t Seen this One Before
17 December 2011
Read the rest at my fellow Houston area collector, Jim Schmidt’s Civil War Medicine (and Writing) blog…“Union Bitters” and “Dr. Scott’s Pills”
I have not seen an example of this bitters bottle that is pictured on the letterhead above. Look at those backward’s N’s. Thanks Jim! The Carlyn Ring and W.C. Ham listing in Bitters Bottles is as follows:
Shot Glass
U 10 UNION BITTERS
2 inches tall, Round, Clear
TMS 415: Union Bitters was likely produced by many concerns as the formula was non-proprietary information. This bitters was listed as standard in catalogues of druggist’s supplies but no marked bottle is now known. See: Dr. A.S. Hopkin’s Union Stomach Bitters Shot Glass
UNION BITTERS
Table graduate 1-4, wine glass, tea graduate 1-8 Round Gold rim tapered
2 5/8 x 1 1/2 (base) 1 7/8 (top)
The new listing for the forthcoming Bitters Bottles Supplement 2:
Envelope
U 9.5 UNION BITTERS (Both ‘N’s’ backwards in UNION) (Illustration wine glass, powder, Union Bitters bottle and Dr. Scott’s Pills), SECESSION PHYSIC CURE. To cure Secession and its ills, Take Dr. Scott’s Cast Iron Pills; Well mixed with Powder of Saltpetre, Apply it to each “Fire Eater.” With Union Bitters, mix it clever, And treason is warned off forever.
Courtesy Bitters Bottles – Carlyn Ring, W.C. Ham
H 180 – Dr. A.S. Hopkins Union Stomach Bitters – Meyer Collection
H 180 DR. A.S. HOPKINS UNION STOMACH BITTERS, Circa 1882 – 1899
DR. A. S. HOPKINS / UNION STOMACH BITTERS / HARTFORD CONN. // f // sp // f //
L…Union Celebrated Root & Bark Bitters
9 3/4 x 2 3/4 (7) 3/8
Square, Yellow, Amber and Green, LTC, Applied mouth, 3 sp, Scarce
Label: Composed of sarsaparilla and other roots and barks. Compounded so as to act in concert, and assist nature in eradicating disease, stimulating, importing tone to the stomach, and strength to the system and a most efficient tonic. Warranted a pure vegetable medicine, guaranteed to keep in any climate and improve with age. Unequaled for hotel, family or medicinal Use. Cholera morbus, asiatic or spasmatic cholera, dysentery and diarrhea. It gives immediate relief in all cases of pain, bilious and painter’s colic, cramps, spasms, convulsions, etc… Cures sudden colds, coughs, fever and ague, canker in the mouth and stomach, kidney complaints, seasickness, headache, cleanses the stomach, regulates the bowels and imparts a tone of health and vigor to the body. Continued to be advertised in 1912.
H 179 – Dr A.S. Hopkins Union Stomach Bitters – Meyer Collection
