Dr. Drake's German Cough and Croup Remedy. The Great Guaranteed Cure for Croup, Coughs and Whooping Cough. [caption-title]
[Findlay, Ohio]: [The Glessner Medicine Co.], [ca. 1910]. An advertising circular for Dr. Drake's (opium-based) German Croup Remedy, an elixir first made by a newspaperman, Leonard Glessner, in his home in 1889. He initially obtained the recipe from a German physician, August Drake, and incorporated in 1905 as the Glessner..... More