Alcademics

For my book Doctors and Distillers I referred to the Smithsonian's "Balm of America" collection of patent medicines. 

The collection is images of patent medicine bottles, pills, etc. 

I was just made aware of another patent medicine collection at NYU - and in this one you can spin the bottles around and look in three dimensions:

Virtual Museum: History of Dentistry

There is also a good amount of information about patent medicines generally and the specific ones in the collection.

Check it out!