Dr. Jayne
Dr. Jayne
Dr. D. Jayne’s Expectorant—purchased $4 from Boonsboro Flea Market 12-19-04 (in 1999 one was sold for $8)
Dr. Jayne’s Alternative
242 Chest St Phila---purchased $5 from Fayetteville Antique Mall 7-17-06
Few patent medicine companies can claim to be as successful and long lived as the line of Dr. Jayne’s Family Medicines. Dr. David Jayne was a pioneer in the field of proprietary medicine and built a business empire that was to last over 100 years.
Dr. David Jayne came from a long line of clergymen. His father, Ebenezer and his uncle, the elder David Jayne were both Baptist ministers as were some of his earlier relatives. Ebenezer was Pastor of a church at Newfoundland, Morris County, New Jersey. He was the author of a book of spiritual songs published about 1809, at Morristown, N.J. by subscription. The book was used for many years in the early Baptist Churches. David Jayne was born at Bushkill, Monroe County, PA, or Middle Smithfield in 1799, the son of the Rev. Ebenezer Jayne. David’s mother was Ebenezer’s second wife who was twelve years his junior. Dr. David Jayne’s family record says his mother Mary DeWitt was the daughter of Isaac & Mary DeWitt a distant relation to the famous Clinton DeWitt. Dr. Jayne was later to name his second son Isaac DeWitt Jayne.
The rural district in that day presented very few opportunities for education, but the boy entered upon a severe course of self-culture and fitted himself, with the aid of a tutor, to enter the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania. In 1825 he entered upon the practice of medicine in Cumberland County, and afterwards in Salem County, N.J. Shortly thereafter his father died in 1826.
In the year 1831 he introduced the first of his proprietary medicines. It is believed that the Carminative Balsam was the first while the others were produced in the succeeding years; the Liniment or Counter-Irritant in the later 1830's; the Tonic Vermifuge in 1845 followed by the Hair Tonic and Ague Mixture. The sale of his first medicines proved so successful that he moved to Philadelphia in 1836, purchased a drugstore at No. 20 South Third Street, and there, while engaged in the sale of drugs and in medical practice, laid the foundation of his subsequent great business in the sale of proprietary medicines.
His business grew so quickly that he was obliged to relinquish all visiting practice but, so the story goes, until the end of his life continued to prescribe for such patients as came to his office, treating them gratuitously and as a "labor of love." By 1845 his business had so expanded that it became necessary to seek larger quarters, and he moved to No. 8, on the same street, a few doors above his original place of business. In less than two years this locality also became insufficient in size, and he then determined on the erection of a building that would be ample for all probable growth of his business, and one which - in size and elegance - would far surpass any business house in Philadelphia. The site selected was on the south side of Chestnut Street. The building begun there in 1848 was completed in the autumn of 1850. When finished it stood 10 stories in height (two underground), its elevation being 100 feet, above which rose a tower 32 feet higher. Its front was of Quincy granite and gothic in architecture making it the most conspicuous building of that time in Philadelphia.
Dr. David Jayne first began advertising his medicines when he was in Salem, New Jersey in 1836. His first product was his Indian Expectorant. A few years later, 1838, he introduced his Tonic Vermifuge (worm syrup). The earliest bottle for the vermifuge is square and does not bear the 84 Chestnut St address. Your bottle, although you do not say so, is probably oval in shape. This was the second container for this product and dates to the 1850s. The product was one of his most successful, the other being the Expectorant. The brand was continued by his son into the 1870s and was still being produced well into the 1900s. (http://www.bottlebooks.com/questions/1999miscel/junequestion.htm)
Dr. D. Jayne’s Expectorant—purchased $4 from Boonsboro Flea Market 12-19-04 (in 1999 one was sold for $8)
Dr. Jayne’s Alternative
242 Chest St Phila---purchased $5 from Fayetteville Antique Mall 7-17-06
Few patent medicine companies can claim to be as successful and long lived as the line of Dr. Jayne’s Family Medicines. Dr. David Jayne was a pioneer in the field of proprietary medicine and built a business empire that was to last over 100 years.
Dr. David Jayne came from a long line of clergymen. His father, Ebenezer and his uncle, the elder David Jayne were both Baptist ministers as were some of his earlier relatives. Ebenezer was Pastor of a church at Newfoundland, Morris County, New Jersey. He was the author of a book of spiritual songs published about 1809, at Morristown, N.J. by subscription. The book was used for many years in the early Baptist Churches. David Jayne was born at Bushkill, Monroe County, PA, or Middle Smithfield in 1799, the son of the Rev. Ebenezer Jayne. David’s mother was Ebenezer’s second wife who was twelve years his junior. Dr. David Jayne’s family record says his mother Mary DeWitt was the daughter of Isaac & Mary DeWitt a distant relation to the famous Clinton DeWitt. Dr. Jayne was later to name his second son Isaac DeWitt Jayne.
The rural district in that day presented very few opportunities for education, but the boy entered upon a severe course of self-culture and fitted himself, with the aid of a tutor, to enter the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania. In 1825 he entered upon the practice of medicine in Cumberland County, and afterwards in Salem County, N.J. Shortly thereafter his father died in 1826.
In the year 1831 he introduced the first of his proprietary medicines. It is believed that the Carminative Balsam was the first while the others were produced in the succeeding years; the Liniment or Counter-Irritant in the later 1830's; the Tonic Vermifuge in 1845 followed by the Hair Tonic and Ague Mixture. The sale of his first medicines proved so successful that he moved to Philadelphia in 1836, purchased a drugstore at No. 20 South Third Street, and there, while engaged in the sale of drugs and in medical practice, laid the foundation of his subsequent great business in the sale of proprietary medicines.
His business grew so quickly that he was obliged to relinquish all visiting practice but, so the story goes, until the end of his life continued to prescribe for such patients as came to his office, treating them gratuitously and as a "labor of love." By 1845 his business had so expanded that it became necessary to seek larger quarters, and he moved to No. 8, on the same street, a few doors above his original place of business. In less than two years this locality also became insufficient in size, and he then determined on the erection of a building that would be ample for all probable growth of his business, and one which - in size and elegance - would far surpass any business house in Philadelphia. The site selected was on the south side of Chestnut Street. The building begun there in 1848 was completed in the autumn of 1850. When finished it stood 10 stories in height (two underground), its elevation being 100 feet, above which rose a tower 32 feet higher. Its front was of Quincy granite and gothic in architecture making it the most conspicuous building of that time in Philadelphia.
Dr. David Jayne first began advertising his medicines when he was in Salem, New Jersey in 1836. His first product was his Indian Expectorant. A few years later, 1838, he introduced his Tonic Vermifuge (worm syrup). The earliest bottle for the vermifuge is square and does not bear the 84 Chestnut St address. Your bottle, although you do not say so, is probably oval in shape. This was the second container for this product and dates to the 1850s. The product was one of his most successful, the other being the Expectorant. The brand was continued by his son into the 1870s and was still being produced well into the 1900s. (http://www.bottlebooks.com/questions/1999miscel/junequestion.htm)