Sean-  Your point is a good one.  Hamburger Tropfen could simply relate to a
drug made in Hamburg, Germany, as you suggest, and not refer to meat at all.
This seems particularly reasonable since Wilson and Wilson ("19th Century
Medicine in Glass," 1971) state that Koenig was from Hamburg and produced
another proprietary medicine that he called "Hamburger Brust Thee," a breast
tea. There was also a medicinal called "Hamburg Drops" advertised in 1895 (Ref.
Joseph Baldwin, "A Collector's Guide to Patent and Proprietary Medicine Bottles
of the Nineteenth Century," Thomas Nelson, Inc., Nashville and New York, p.
220). My discussion of beef teas and extracts may have been unrelated to
Koenig's Hamburger Tropfen.

Allen
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> Allen - I wonder if the Hamburger doesn't refer to Hamburg, Germany, and
> that the medicine was implied to have originated there.
>
> Ron - It does list Fellow's Compound Syrup of Hypophosphites on page
> 226 and says that was introduced around 1872.
>
> Sean Dunham
>
> >>> [log in to unmask] 11/22/02 12:46PM >>>
> Sean:
>
> Does that book also list Fellows Compound Syrup bottles?
>
> Ron Fellows
>
>
> Sean Dunham wrote:
>
> > April,
> >
> > That one shows up on page 170 of Richard Fike's "The Bottle Book: A
> > Comprehensive Guide to Historic, Embossed Medicine Bottles,"
> Peregrine
> > Smith Books, Salt Lake City (1987).  That source says it was
> introduced
> > in 1871.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Sean Dunham
> >
> >