Great Response, Alasdair!!  Thank you for sending that to all of us.
 
For anyone interested in the US bitters, Carol Serr, one of my
colleagues in the Bottle Research Group found the following:
 

 
If one searches on the spelling Salutaris instead…you find (I assume
what Barb found):
http://www.westernbitters.com/2010/11/byrne-castree-salutaris-bitters.html
 
A brief mention here:
http://www.westernbitters.com/2011/04/early-california-medicines.html
 
In 1830, a Dr. Siegert was exporting his Angostura bitters to
England…from S. America…so, why couldn’t Salutaris be exported too?
http://www.angostura.com/History/HistoryOfAngosturaaromaticbitters/tabid/72/Default.aspx
“Bitters: A liquor generally spirituous in which a bitter herb leaf or
root is steeped.”
 
Trademarks from 1861-1865…according to:
http://www.learncalifornia.org/GoDocUserFiles/3460.trademark-salutaris-bitters-tm15.jpg
 Bill
 


>>> Alasdair Brooks <[log in to unmask]> 6/10/2011 4:12 AM >>>
Dear Barb,I've recently been analysing several late 19th, early
20th-century bottle assemblages from the north of England (all from
Yorkshire).I know of no period-appropriate evidence from Yorkshire that
bottles from San Francisco would have reached northern England.  In
fact, until the second decade of the 20th century - with the foundation
of United Glass in 1913, and the consolidation of the St. Helens-based
glass industries - much north of England glass manufacture and
consumption remains highly localised.  Identifiable marked (whether by
firm or manufacturer) bottles are most typically associated with a
fairly tight 25 mile radius of deposition.  This contrasts rather
starkly with several other British manufacturing industries, though
that's perhaps a topic for another e-mail.Evidence of any bottle imports
from outside the United Kingdom is highly limited in these assemblages,
basically restricted to a French baby-feeding bottle, and one _possible_
import from New York -

  the fragmentary evidence isn't conclusive on the latter.This isn't
definitive proof that a bottle of Californian Salutaris Bitters wouldn't
have made it to the UK since the only data I have is selective and
regional, but I consider it unlikely for a number of reasons.  However,
having now read pages 38-39 of Mrs. Havelock Ellis' book - where the
reference occurs in a chapter charmingly titled 'drink' - I note that
the main characters do refer to Salutaris as a &quot;foreign speerit ...
perhaps Roosian [sic]&quot;; this isn't necessarily intended to be taken
at face value.  They are confused over finding the unfamiliar
'Salutaris' bottle mixed in with alcohol bottles; their reaction
probably seemed comical to contemporary readers, who would have been
more familiar with the contents.Salutaris water is simply aerated
bottled water which was sometimes bottled in champagne bottles.  It was
sometimes mixed with alcohol, but not necessarily. Salutaris water was
made and bottled by
  
the late 19th, early 20th century Salutaris Water Company of Fulham,
London.  There is no need for American imports from San Francisco for a
British household to own salutaris water bottles.It was also a common
treatment for gout in the early 20th century.  Your colleague may be
interested in the introduction of chapter 6, 'diet in gout' of George
Alexander Sutherland's near-contemporary 1908 Oxford University Press
book &quot;A System of Diet and Dietetics&quot;.This 1880 advert from
the British Library may also prove
useful:http://ogimages.bl.uk/images/014/014EVA000000000U07554V00[SVC2].jpgHope
that helps,Alasdair Brooks

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Dear HistArch'ers

On behalf of a colleague of mine in English literature, I'm reposting
this
query in case any of you might be able to help:

&quot;The 1906 book 'My Cornish Neighbors' by Edith Ellis has a passage
that
refers to alcohol bottles with red and white labels with the word
&quot;Salutaris&quot; printed on them. Do you know what spirit this
would be? Where
was it made? Is there anywhere I could find an image of this kind of
bottle?&quot;

Thanks in advance for any suggestions. A quick google search revealed
a
Saluteris Bitters produced in San Francisco around this time but I am
not
sure if that would have been exported to England during this period?

--Barb