[Rarebooks] FS: 1900s Cushing Medical Supply Liquor Catalog

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, Ephemera & Photographs]

1900s Cushing Medical Supply Liquor Catalog.

Issued in Boston around 1900-1908.

Dr. Ira Barrows Cushing knew a good thing when he found it- a 
homeopathic physician, and owner of a patent medicine manufactory and an 
1892 patent for a “process of and apparatus for purifying and maturing 
liquors or distilled spirits [by] commingling a suitable quantity of 
oxygen gas with the atmospheric air, whereby the air which is 
disseminated through the liquor is energized or rendered more active for 
the purpose of rapidly oxidizing the fusel-oils into their 
avoring-acids”, he decided that all that mumbo-jumbo was best used to 
sell whiskey, gin, rum, and brandy as a medicinal product. “Cushing 
Process whiskies, wines, gins, rums and brandies are recommended by the 
leading Physicians of New England and used in the best Hospitals of the 
Country” he proclaims on the first page of this catalog, and they might 
well have been. And here they are, in all their, um, “medicinal” glory. 
Cushing himself died in 1908 and in 1912 the company had been dissolved 
for its debts by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Softcover. 3.5”x6”, 12 pages, tinted illustrations. Some soil and wear.  
[47413]  $85

Pictures ->
<https://www.joslinhall.com/images460/th-47413-cover.jpg>
<https://www.joslinhall.com/images460/th-47413-cover2.jpg>
<https://www.joslinhall.com/images460/th-47413-cover3.jpg>
<https://www.joslinhall.com/images460/th-47413-cover4.jpg>
<https://www.joslinhall.com/images460/th-47413-cover5.jpg>


See more in our related POTENT POTABLES catalog, which may be viewed or 
downloaded as a .pdf file here ->
<http://www.joslinhall.com/Catalog401.pdf>

sign up for our email list->
http://www.joslinhall.com/newslist.htm

-- 
Joslin Hall Rare Books, Ephemera, & Photographs
Post Office Box 49
Hatfield, Massachusetts 01038 USA

-

www.joslinhall.com
(413) 247-5080

Member:
Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America
International League of Antiquarian Booksellers
Southern New England Antiquarian Booksellers
Ephemera Society

Our email list
http://www.joslinhall.com/newslist.htm

Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/joslinhallbooks

Twitter
https://twitter.com/joslinhall

  ~ ~ ~

TERMS:
All payments must be in U.S. funds and negotiable through a U.S. bank; 
We accept checks, money orders, American Express, Visa and Mastercard. 
Books may be reserved pending payment; Institutions may be billed; 
Standard courtesies to institutions and the trade; Postage charges are 
$5.00 for the first book, and $2.00 for each additional book. Shipments 
outside the U.S. will be billed at cost. We accept returns if we are 
notified within ten days of your receipt of the books-please ask for 
full instructions and terms. Massachusetts residents must add 6.25% 
state sales tax.

As members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America we are 
committed to upholding high professional standards and making sure your 
bookbuying experience is enjoyable.