An 8 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 back to the late 1800's.

• Bottle embossed: "HEALY & BIGELOW'S / INDIAN SAGWA" with a picture of an Indian Chief in full headdress.

• Condition: This bottle is in good solid condition.  It has content haze and age wear but there isn't anything significantly wrong with it; NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc.  Please see pictures for best idea of bottle's overall appearance and condition.
  

• 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 old patent medicine with the 'KICKAPOO INDIAN SAGWA' embossing along with the embossed picture of an INDIAN CHIEF w/ FULL HEAD DRESS.  To fully dress this bottle, it has a copy of the original label that came on these bottles.  The label is a colored copy from an original label that went on these bottles.  Not only does the label explain what was in the bottle ("Blood, Liver, Stomach, and Kidney Renovator") but it also has a picture of a Native American on it, and gives it that original look for displaying.)   There are just not enough of these bottles to go around with the paper labels.   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 Sagwa' 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 name's are embossed on the bottle) 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,  SAGWA, and marketed as the golden medical discovery of the century, KICKAPOO INDIAN SAGWA.   And the 'KICKAPOO' title, an Indian tribe? OR was it so spiked with Alcohol and Ether that it 'kicked butt'?   The original proprietor's  of this concoction (Healy and Bigelow) were among the early patent medicine men whose products were tested and exposed as false and fraudulent.  This product  contained no properties in it that would help prevent or cure any type of sickness.   As a result of such quacks, the Pure Food and Drug Administration  was formed and the 1906 pure food and drug act was created, to keep this type of medicine from ever being marketed.   And here it is, a prime example, the real thing, one of the QUACK medicines from a bygone era, check it out!

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