A 5 1/2" tall cylinder-shaped light TURQUOISE AQUA MARINE colored antique PATENT (quack) INDIAN MEDICINE bottle.  The label on this bottle is a colored copy of the original label that went on this bottle ( * see below) but the bottle itself is an ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand Blown Into Mold bottle (BIM) with a tooled top, dating OVER 100 years old.

• Bottle embossed: "HEALY & BIGELOW'S / KICKAPOO / INDIAN OIL".

• Condition: This bottle is in good clean condition.  It does have some traces of content haze and age wear, but there isn't anything specifically wrong with it; NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc.  Please see pictures for overall appearance of bottle's label.
  

• Age: An ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a tooled-top, ca. late 1800's.

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What a great sounding old patent medicine with the 'KICKAPOO INDIAN OIL' embossing. Note that MANY of these bottles are the newer examples and are just embossed "KICKAPOO OIL" but this one is the OLDER, FULLY embossed variant.   (* The label on this bottle is a colored copy of the original label that went on this bottle. Not only does the label explain what was in the bottle, but it also has a picture of a Native American on it, and gives it an original look for displaying.)  Back in the day when this bottle was in circulation, the Native American Indian was looked upon with much mystique. Many early-day patent medicine men used them as a symbol to sell their medicines and suggested that their medicines had secret age-old formulas that had been concocted over the centuries by the Native American. This is one of them, Kickapoo Indian Oil, that supposedly had some kind of miraculous healing powers from the ingredients that were extracted from different roots and herbs that the Native American Indians had used for centuries to treat such things, plus a little Indian spiritism added to the allure.   Instead of this 'Indian Oil' being an authentic age-old native American Indian cure, derived from some naturally occurring herbs and roots, this concoction was developed by a pair of shysters (Healy and Bigelow; whose signatures are on this box) in an industrial city in the eastern part of the country.   It was a quack cure concoction composed of nothing more than an oil based liquid with flavoring added, a few herbs and sprigs mixed in for good measure, and laced with Ether or other narcotic ingredients so that a user really would feel 'cured'. Then it was promoted as containing some secret ancient Native American healing tonic, or in this instance, Kickapoo Oil, and marketed as the golden medical discovery of the century, KICKAPOO INDIAN OIL.   And the 'KICKAPOO' title, an Indian tribe? OR was the oil so loaded with Alcohol and Ether that it 'kicked butt'?   Who knows ... except one thing that did become known later on is that the original proprietor's this concoction (Healy and Bigelow) were among the early patent medicine men whose products were later tested and exposed as truly fraudulent as far as their ability to treat any type of sickness.   As a result of such quacks, in 1906 the Pure Food and Drug Administration was formed to keep this type of medicine from ever being marketed, and it was the beginning of the end of the patent medicine - quack medicine era.   And here it is, a prime example, the Real Thing, of one of these medicines from a bygone era, check it out!

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