One of the original “quack medicines,” Paines Celery Compound was celery seed, red cinchona, orange peel, coriander seed, lemon peel, hydrochloric acid, glycerin, simple syrup, water, and alcohol…some 18-20% alcohol.

In 1874, Edward Phelps, a Yale and Dartmouth medical graduate, created a “celery seed” compound for a wide range of ailments. In the 1880s, Milton Kendall Paine bought the rights to the celery compound and successfully sold it as “The Best Remedy in the World—Paine’s Celery Compound.” Then in 1877,  marketing genius Wells, Richardson & Company of Burlington, Vermont, purchased the rights and their advertising budget went from $4,000 to over $25,000 over the next two decades.

This attractive amber bottle is 9.75 inches tall, with PAINE’S embossed on one sunken panel and CELERY COMPOUND on the other; it has the number 7 on the base. It is free of cracks or chips and will be carefully wrapped and promptly mailed by USPS.

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