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Ephemra - QUACKERY NEW YORK

Currency:CAD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:20.00 CAD Estimated At:40.00 - 60.00 CAD
Ephemra - QUACKERY NEW YORK
SOLD
20.00CAD+ buyer's premium (4.00)
This item SOLD at 2016 Nov 26 @ 19:21UTC-4 : AST/EDT

Buyer’s Premiums will be added on all items as per the Terms & Conditions of the sale. Invoices will be emailed out following the Coin Cabinet Collector Show.
Ephemra - QUACKERY NEW YORK - Barclay & Co - Lanman & Kemp Medical Quackery
American Bank Note Company
2 pieces
(sheet of 100 labels) 16.5/8" x 7.4/8"
Label in Spanish Reuter's Genuine Syrup 2.5/8" x 1.5/8"


Misbranding of "Reuter's Syrup." U. S. v. Barclay & Co., a corporation. Plea of guilty. Fine, $100.
On July 24, 1917, the United States attorney for the Southern District of
New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the
District Court of the United States for said district an information against
Barclay & Co., a corporation, doing business at New York, N. Y., alleging shipment by said company, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended, on January 20, 1915, from the State of New York into the Island of Porto Rico, of a quantity of an article labeled in part, " Reuter's Syrup," which was misbranded.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this
department showed the following results:
Alcohol (per cent by volume) 22.1
Total solids (grams per 100 cc) 12. 28
Ash (gram per 100 cc) 0.11
Reducing sugars (gram per 100 cc) 0.24
Sucrose (grams per 100 cc) 10. 88
Nonsugar solids (grams per 100 cc) 1.16
Lead acetate precipitate: Very light.
The product is essentially a hydroalcoholic solution of sugar, aromatics, and a cathartic drug containing emadin.
It was alleged in substance in the information that the article was misbranded for the reason that certain statements appearing on its labels falsely and fraudulently represented it to be effective for purifying the blood and as a remedy for anemia, chlorosis, dyspepsia, scrofula, syphilis, pimples, herpes, and cutaneous affections in general; all infirmities resulting from impoverished blood, irregularities of the stomach, catarrh, indigestion, piles, rheumatism, malarial fever, gangrene, psoriasis, eruptions, carbuncles, eczema, affections of the bladder and the kidneys; all organic debility in man and woman, irregularities common to women, similar infirmities that are in many cases the cause of serious sickness; and effective for the extermination of worms; and for the further reason that certain statements appearing in the circular or pamphlet accompanying the article falsely and fraudulently represented it as a cure for syphilis and eczema and to be effective for the extermination of all classes of worms and for preventing the return thereof, when, in truth and in fact, it was not.
On September 4, 1917, the defendant company entered a plea of guilty to the information, and the court imposed a fine of $100.
C. F. MARVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.

Lanman & Kemp - The Company was established in 1808 by Robert I. Murray at Number 313 Pearl Street, New York City. In 1835 Robert Murray was joined by D.T. Lanman and the business was conducted under the firm name Murray & Lanman at Number 69 Water Street. In 1861 the firm name was changed to Lanman & Kemp.  These three successive firms remained in business at number 69 Water Street, New York City, until 1870 when the business moved to number 68 Williams St., where it remained until 1900 in which it moved to 135 Water St., New York City.
Continuously from the years 1861 to 1920 the business was conducted under the firm name of Lanman & Kemp and in the last named year it was Incorporated under the laws of the State of New York, under the title of Lanman & Kemp. The records of Lanman & Kemp document the operations of the wholesale drug business in the years before the development of modern pharmaceuticals. They also show the importance of New York City as a center for the import, export and re-export business and of London bankers in financing international trade and extending credit.
Lanman & Kemp engaged in the wholesale drug trade, buying and selling medical material throughout the United States and worldwide. They sold their own patent medicines as well as those of other producers. Their most popular product was "Florida water," an all-purpose toilet water touted for cosmetic and restorative qualities, its name associated with Ponce de Leon and the Fountain of Youth in company advertising. Florida water was introduced by Robert Murray on February 14, 1808 and is still sold under its original brand. Lanman & Kemp also dealt in opiates, medicinal and culinary herbs, spices, liquors, flavorings and perfumery extracts, paint and pigments, medical apparatus and glassware. In addition, they acted as purchasing agents for overseas clients and traded in retail shop fixtures, books, guns, harness, and sewing machines.
Lanman & Kemp enjoyed a very large export and re-export business, particularly with Latin America, where David Lanman had traveled and retained a wide circle of correspondents. The firm employed traveling agents who covered the territory, taking orders, and also took direct orders by mail. The firm was also a large importer of raw materials from Southeast Asia and the Mediterranean, particularly opium bought through Turkish merchants. This import-export business was financed through London banking houses. The company was later named Lanman & Kemp-Barclay & Co.
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