Listeria: Prices Of Health Care Products In NYC In The 1880s

Old Timey Elixirs.

Based on the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

  • Lung Invigorators…$6
  • Body Belts…$5
  • Leg Belts…$4
  • Head Caps…$4
  • Humphrey’s Specific Homeopathic Pills for Women…$4
  • Knee Caps…$3
  • Owens’ Anti Intoxication…$2
  • Madame Yale’s Skin Food…$1.50
  • Madame Yale’s Constipation Fertilizer…$1.50
  • Throat Protectors…$1
  • Madame Yale’s “La Freckla” Freckle Cure…$1
  • Vail’s Restorer Disease Exterminator…$1
  • Warner’s Kidney Cure…80¢
  • Owens’ Dyspepsia Cure…50¢
  • Owens’ Diarrhea Syrup…25¢
  • Owens’ Worm Syrup…25¢
  • Owens’ Magic Cure for Chilblains…25¢
  • Owens’ Toothache Drops…15¢