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Bromo Quinine Cold Tablets.
About this object
This Bromo Quinine Cold Tablets. The main active ingredient in the product was quinine hydrobromide. Use of bromide products resulted in bromism. Bromism is a dangerous medication condition due to over consumption of bromide containing products such as those depicted here. There are case reports of bromism induced death from the late 1880s through the time when these products were taken off the market in the last quarter of the 20th Century.
Edwin Wiley Grove maker of Bromo Quinine was born in Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tennessee in 1850. He moved to Paris, TN, and became a druggist. He invented and began selling Febriline and Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic. The Paris Medicine Company was established in 1886, and moved to St. Louis, Missouri in 1889. The Tasteless Quinine Company was soon formed in Asheville, North Carolina. Grove had many business interests in Asheville, including The Manor, Albemarle Park, Battery Park Hotel, The Arcade, Grovemont, Lake Eden, and the famous Grove Park Inn. EW Grove died in 1927. Paris Medicine Co was renamed the GROVE LABORATORIES in 1935.
The product was heavily promoted as a laxative and as a cure for influenza, often referred to as "La Gripps". The bromide contents and volume within made this a very unsafe medicine.
Maker
Grove Laboratories
Maker Role
American Quack Patent Medicine Producer
Date Made
1940s
Place Made
St. Louis, MO, USA
Object Type
Quack Patent Medicine, circa 1944
Object number
Fincham Collection 237