Warner’s Safe Cure: Another Pressburg Gem!

Back in December, I highlighted the sale of a beautiful blue/green Pressburg Safe Cure that had surfaced in Hungary. Never mind that Pressburg Safe Cures are rare, in and of themselves, but the color of that bottle made it even more so and it fetched $2325 on eBay. Well, another spectacular Pressburg Safe Cure surfaced this week on eBay. Not only was it in a similar blue/green color, but it retained about 90% of its label, albeit faded and content stained. Foreign language labels on Safe Cures are an added bonus. Well, I’m starting to run out of superlatives. The rarity of this example was not lost either and, in the end, it fetched $3421 for the seller in Poland. 

There is little more that can be said about Pressburg Safe Cures and their place in the hierarchy of rare cures that I and others have not already said. This beautiful example will undoubtedly grace someone’s collection for years to come. I only hope we continue to see more examples of rare Warner’s Safe Cures. By the way, if you are sitting on a Pressburg Rheumatic Cure, we need to talk!  Special thanks to Piotr for allowing me to use his pictures of this latest Pressburg gem.

Warner’s Safe Cure – Puric Acid?

This advertisement ran in the March 15, 1895 edition of The Hamilton Journal. In my research of newspaper advertising run by the Warner’s Safe Remedies Company and its successors, I have found that Warner often ran the same ads in different newspapers, probably to save on the costs associated with creating new ads; however, this ad in 1895 would have been after Warner left the company in 1893. It strikes the same tone and themes concerning kidney disease.

Perhaps the more interesting thing is the title “Puric Acid in the Blood.” I am not sure if this was a typo by the newspaper or just ignorance. To my limited medical knowledge, there is no such thing as puric acid. There is, of course, uric acid, which is a byproduct of the metabolic breakdown of “purines” and at high enough levels can lead to the development of gout, which is also mentioned in the ad. Perhaps that is where the confusion arose. Never fear….Safe Cure to the rescue!