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== Notable liniments == [[Image:Old bottle of Mentholatum.JPG|thumb|upright=.8|An old bottle of AA Hyde Mentholatum Ointment]] * [[A.B.C. Liniment]] was used from approximately 1880 to 1935.<ref name='family-doctor-1935'>{{cite book | title = Everybody's Family Doctor | publisher = Odhams Press LTD | year = 1935 | location = London, UK | pages = 7 }}</ref><ref name='1880-letter'>{{cite journal|doi=10.1136/bmj.1.1002.424|title=Letters, Notes, and Answers to Correspondents|journal=Br Med J|date=March 13, 1880|first=John|last=Cross|volume=1|issue=1002|pages=424β426|pmc= 2239646}}</ref> It was named for its three primary ingredients: [[Aconitum|aconite]], [[Atropa belladonna|belladonna]], and [[chloroform]].<ref name='family-doctor-1935' /> There were numerous examples of [[Toxin|poisoning]] from the mixture, resulting in at least one death.<ref name='poison1'>{{cite journal|title=Liniment A.B.C. poisoning|journal=Journal of the Indian Medical Association |date=16 March 1967|first1=R P.|last1=Sinha|last2=Mitra|first2=S K. |last3=Roy |first3=P K.|volume=48|issue=6|pages=278β9|pmid=6038536 }}{{failed verification|date=March 2022}}</ref><ref name='poison2'>{{cite journal|doi=10.1136/bmj.1.435.399-a|title=Fatal Case Of Poisoning By A.B.C. Liniment|journal=The British Medical Journal|date=February 15, 1896|first=Archibald|last=Weir|volume=1|issue=1833|pages=399β400|s2cid=19739440}}</ref><ref name='poison3'>{{cite journal|title=Accidental Poisoning of Children in Belfast: A Report of two years' experience at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children|journal=Ulster Med J.|date=November 1954|first=O D.|last=Fisher|pmid=20476409|volume=23|issue=2|pmc=2480209|pages=124β131}}</ref><ref name='poison4'>{{cite journal|doi=10.1136/adc.28.137.26|title=Accidental Poisoning of Young Children|journal=Arch Dis Child|date=February 1953 |first=Douglas|last=Swinscow|pmid=13031693|volume=28|issue=137|pmc=1988641|pages=26β29}}</ref> * [[Amrutanjan (balm)|Amrutanjan]] is an analgesic balm manufactured by [[Amrutanjan Healthcare]].<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/todays-paper/tp-marketing/Amrutanjan-relaunches-pain-balm/article20147972.ece|title=Amrutanjan relaunches pain balm|website=@businessline|date=20 November 2008 |access-date=2020-10-25|archive-date=2020-10-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028211321/https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/todays-paper/tp-marketing/Amrutanjan-relaunches-pain-balm/article20147972.ece|url-status=live}}</ref> It was founded in 1893 by journalist and freedom fighter, [[Kasinathuni Nageswara Rao]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/management/answers-to-last-week-s-quiz-329-113111000505_1.html|title=Answers to last week's quiz (#329) |author=Strategist Team |newspaper=Business Standard India |date=November 11, 2013|via=Business Standard|access-date=October 25, 2020|archive-date=July 3, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200703173753/https://www.business-standard.com/article/management/answers-to-last-week-s-quiz-329-113111000505_1.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="auto"/> * [[Bengay]], spelled Ben-Gay before 1995, was developed in France by Dr. [[Jules BenguΓ©]], and brought to America in 1898. It was originally produced by [[Pfizer]] Consumer Healthcare, which was acquired by [[Johnson & Johnson]]. * Dr. Cox's Barbed Wire Liniment and Antiseptic, made by Myers Laboratory. Marketed as treatment for minor wounds (contains iodine) for livestock and humans, such as barbed wire scratches.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object/nmah_1348738|title=Dr. Cox's Barbed Wire Lniment|access-date=19 Jan 2025}}</ref> * IcyHot is a line of liniments produced and marketed by [[Chattem]], now a subsidiary of [[Sanofi]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dopamine.chem.umn.edu/chempedia/index.php/Icy_Hot|title=Icy Hot - Chempedia|date=2 August 2008|access-date=9 May 2018|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080802014048/https://dopamine.chem.umn.edu/chempedia/index.php/Icy_Hot|archive-date=2 August 2008}}</ref> * [[Mentholatum|Mentholatum Ointment]], branded [[Deep Heat (heat rub)|Deep Heat]] outside of the US, was introduced in December 1894 and is still produced today with numerous variations.<ref>Springville Journal Staff. January 30, 2015 [https://springvillejournal.com/the-mentholatum-company-thanks-wny-residents-for-success/ The Mentholatum Company thanks WNY residents for success] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160730231304/https://springvillejournal.com/the-mentholatum-company-thanks-wny-residents-for-success/ |date=2016-07-30 }}</ref> * [[Minard's Liniment]]: Dr. Levi Minard of [[Nova Scotia]], branded as "The King of Pain,"<ref>{{Cite book |last=Freeman |first=Beverly J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MPn9GgAACAAJ |title=Levi Minard, M.D., King of Pain |date=1998 |publisher=B.J. Freeman |language=en |oclc=40881236 |access-date=2022-03-14 |archive-date=2022-03-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220314094723/https://books.google.com/books?id=MPn9GgAACAAJ&newbks=0&hl=en |url-status=live }}</ref> created his well-known liniment from camphor, ammonia water, and medical turpentine. * [[Nine oils]]: a 19th-century preparation used on both horses and humans. Although druggists' books sometimes specified recipes, [[Quackery|street doctors]] often promoted any kind of oil as the "nine oils".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.victorianlondon.org/publications3/toilers-19.htm|title=Victorian London - Publications - Social Investigation/Journalism - Toilers in London, by One of the Crowd [James Greenwood], [1883] - Doctor Quackinbosh|website=www.victorianlondon.org|access-date=2022-02-24|archive-date=2021-01-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210117131403/https://www.victorianlondon.org/publications3/toilers-19.htm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pDddAAAAcAAJ&q=%22nine+oils%22+patent+medicine&pg=RA1-PA21|title=The Dictionary of Practical Receipts; Containing the Arcana of Trade and Manufacture; Domestic Economy; Artistical, Ornamental&scientific Processes; Pharmaceutical and Chemical Preparations, Etc. (Third Edition.).|last=FRANCIS|first=George William|date=1853|publisher=J. Allen, D. Francis|language=en|access-date=2020-10-18|archive-date=2022-02-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220224180329/https://books.google.com/books?id=pDddAAAAcAAJ&q=%22nine+oils%22+patent+medicine&pg=RA1-PA21|url-status=live}}</ref> * [[Opodeldoc]]: invented by the [[Renaissance]] physician [[Paracelsus]]. * [[RUB A535]]: introduced in 1919 and manufactured by [[Church & Dwight]] in Canada. * [[Thermacare]]: Acquired in 2020 by [[Italy|Italy's]] [[Angelini]] when it was spun off following the merger of [[Pfizer]] with [[GlaxoSmithKline]]'s consumer healthcare division. * [[Tiger Balm]] was developed during the 1870s in [[Rangoon]], [[Burma]] by herbalist [[Aw Chu Kin]], and brought to market by his sons. It is composed of 16% [[menthol]] and 28% [[Methyl salicylate|oil of wintergreen]].<ref>{{citation | url=https://www.tigerbalm.com/index.php?id=7 | title=Tiger Balm: Heritage | access-date=2009-09-30 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090831044510/https://www.tigerbalm.com/index.php?id=7 | archive-date=2009-08-31 }} </ref> * Watkins Liniment: One of [[Watkins Incorporated]]'s original products.
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