Selling as a lot with both bottles, boxes and 2 sets of paper directions.
Bottles have been opened. One box is missing the paperwork. These are in lovely condition. Corks look just like new. Still has fluids in both bottles.
This is a vintage antique Vapo-Cresolene vapor oil glass bottle that was manufactured before 1930. It comes with its original box and advertising. The bottle was likely used for medical purposes, as it falls under the category of "Other Medical Antiques" and "Science & Medicine (Pre-1930)."
Cresolene Vaporizer, 1879, cost $1.75 vapors, and respiratory devices are the preferred methods to treat conditions such as asthma, catarrh, tuberculosis (consumption), pneumonia, and heart disease.
Dr. Henry Fuller (Fuller, Henry, MD, On Diseases of the Lungs and Air-Passages, Henry C. Lea, Philadelphia, 1867, p. 458) writes:
For this purpose aqueous vapor, charged with the essential properties of conium, hyoscyamus, stramonium, or other substances may be diffused through the atmosphere of the apartment, and breathed through one of the many forms of inhalers, whilst in other cases, in which there is a tendency to inflammation, more stimulating substanc-es, such as iodine, camphor, benzoin, naphtha, creosote, carbolic acid, and common tar, may be bereficially inhaled in the same manner.