^Lot 268 The Chattanooga Medicine Company,

Chattanooga, TN. 1920-30. Specimen. Odd shs. orange. Factory building. In 1879 Chattanooga businessman Zeboim Cartter Patten and a group of friends established the Cattanooga Medicine Company. Its first two products, Black-Draught and Wine of Cardui, were so successful that they were sold well into the twentieth century. Patten procured the formula rights to Black-Draught, a senna-Based laxative, from the grandson of its originator, Dr. A. Q. Simmons. Wine of Cardiu was a uterine sedative, whose name derived from Carduus benedictus. During the great world wide conflict of 1939 to 1945 the company became the largest producer of K-rations and a major supplier of ammonia. Postwar products include Pamprin, Flex-all, Icy Hot, Phisoderm, and Norwich aspirin. SBNC. XF.