Bottle, 'Eno'; J C Eno Limited; 1920-1930; WY.0000.438
Bottle, 'Eno'
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This cork stoppered bottle once contained 'Eno' fruit salts.
In 1852, the British pharmacist James Crossley Eno started selling a fruit salt mixture from his pharmacy in the port city of Newcastle upon Tyne. He gave away his mixture to hungover seafarers, and in this way the name Eno became associated with fruit salts around the world.
As the pharmaceutical industry moved away from cure-all patent medicines in the mid-twentieth century, Eno Fruit Salt became one of the only surviving products of its kind, advertised as a panacea for everything from gout, rheumatism, colds, fevers, biliousness, indigestion, diarrhea, pimples, and headaches.
This bottle is part of a large collection of chemist's equipment which came from the old Wyndham pharmacy in Balaclava Street. This was the United Friendly Society Dispensary, known as the UFS.
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Date Made1920-1930
Period1920s
Place MadeOceania, New Zealand, North Island, Wellington
Medium and Materials
inorganic, processed material, glass
inorganic, processed material, metal, gold
On front on paper label printed: 'ENO'
'FRUIT SALT'
Includes directions for use & product information.
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Subject and Association Keywords Subject and Association Keywords Object Type Object numberWY.0000.438
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