Ah, the Miracle of Modern Medicine, circa 1938. While researching Dr Blosser’s Medical Cigarettes I found a great website with a little write up about Dr Joseph W Blosser, so I won’t rehash the information when you can just click here and read about him.
I do find it interesting that I found some other advertisements for this product that claim there is no tobacco in the cigarettes. One ad said that they are “composed of medical herbs, flowers and berries”. I wonder which ones?
cigarette treatment for asthma!!! i guess asthma patients are ever increasing since then
It feels awesome to read such informative and unique articles on your websites.
I was taught to smoke Dr Blosser’s cigarettes at the age of four, some seventy-three years ago. I smoked ‘real’ cigarettes from age sixteen to forty-eight. Did being taught to inhale smoke at a tender age have anything to do with my later habit?
Haha! Possibly! At 4 years old, really?
The herbs listed also listed canabis sativa. At 4 we used them often. Afternoon munchies always followed.
I am 69 and I was given these at an early age also. I do seem to remember they worked. Course I didn’t have asthma, just colds. Don’t know why the named just popped into my head and I looked it up. Glad to find some info on them.
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I have recently been reading the book “A Home-Concealed Woman: The Diaries of Magnolia Wynn Le Guin, 1901-1913”, and she makes mentioned of sending away to Atlanta for a pack, I believe to help her with her catarrh that she seemed to suffer from a lot.