"Nervous, excitable, restless? Take Nervine" -- 1938
The development of safer sedatives led to the disappearance of Nervine from American shelves by 1975.
-- Scientopia. Org
A pamphlet mailed to farmers with weather guide for the year
and advertising with testimonials
The Miles Medical company,
was founded in 1884 by Franklin Miles MD,
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"Okay, so Nervine -- the original Mother's Little Helper along with Milltown -- was created in 1889 and went off the market in 1999. The main ingredients were bromines, which is why in the 1950s the FDA told Miles to change their formula, so it went from being a 'nerve' tonic to being a sleep aid with the removal of the bromines. Reason why Nervine the sleep aid went off the market in 1999 was with the merger with Bayer, Bayer had their own sleep aid on the market so didn't need to produce two.
"Nervine wasn't really quackery, though some of Miles' other products of the early days mighta been (Cactus Compound, anyone?)... the thing was, Miles had invented the concept of 'nerves' as A Thing, and the sedative properties treated that. They were defintely not the only ones who were selling the notion -- Rexall had their own version, their nerve tonic wasn't bromiated but still messed with your head, and instead of calling it 'nerves' they referred to it "Americanitis". Google that for proof. :)
"Now you know what happened."
-- Mushy
"Nervous, excitable, restless? Take Nervine" -- 1938
The development of safer sedatives led to the disappearance of Nervine from American shelves by 1975.
-- Scientopia. Org
A pamphlet mailed to farmers with weather guide for the year
and advertising with testimonials
The Miles Medical company,
was founded in 1884 by Franklin Miles MD,
------------
"Okay, so Nervine -- the original Mother's Little Helper along with Milltown -- was created in 1889 and went off the market in 1999. The main ingredients were bromines, which is why in the 1950s the FDA told Miles to change their formula, so it went from being a 'nerve' tonic to being a sleep aid with the removal of the bromines. Reason why Nervine the sleep aid went off the market in 1999 was with the merger with Bayer, Bayer had their own sleep aid on the market so didn't need to produce two.
"Nervine wasn't really quackery, though some of Miles' other products of the early days mighta been (Cactus Compound, anyone?)... the thing was, Miles had invented the concept of 'nerves' as A Thing, and the sedative properties treated that. They were defintely not the only ones who were selling the notion -- Rexall had their own version, their nerve tonic wasn't bromiated but still messed with your head, and instead of calling it 'nerves' they referred to it "Americanitis". Google that for proof. :)
"Now you know what happened."
-- Mushy