Mesmerine (patent medicine)

Mesmerine was a patent medicine, manufactured and sold by H. F. Mumler (Mrs. W. H. Mumler), clairvoyant physician, which was sold as a remedy for diseases of the blood, liver, and spleen, as well as dyspepsia (indigestion). The medicine was described as clairvoyant as it was claimed that it was prepared by Dr. Benjamin Rush (1746-1813), who was supposed to act through Mumler.

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• "MESMERINE, FOR THE BLOOD, Is a Clairvoyant Remedy...", Times Union (Brooklyn, NY): 2, 10 Oct. 1870, https://www.newspapers.com/article/times-union-mesmerine-for-the-blood-is/153794076/ 

  MESMERINE, FOR THE BLOOD, Is a Clairvoyant Remedy, and acts on the blood through the digestive organs, placing them first in a healthy condition. giving a keen appetite, and by this means uprooting and displacing the many different diseases that flesh is heir to.

  The Mesmerine is prepared by Mrs. W. H. Mumler, the celebrated Clairvoyant Physician, whose photograph, taken while she was entranced, and showing the power that entrances and controls her, can be seen at H. C. BOSWELL'S Drug Store, 124 Grand street, Williamsburgh.