The Medicine Save The Baby (Page 4)
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Is the formula for Lee's Save the Baby (liquid in the glass bottle NOT the rub on salve) patent protected, does anyone know how to obtain the formula

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Dr. Lee's Save-the-Baby was manufactured in North Creek NY. The chief ingredient was balsam oil from the tree. Contact the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake NY, www.adkmuseum.org for history, recipes, and more. Also the Johnsburg Historical Society, Wevertown NY would have lots of detail on who made it, where, and who he was in the larger world.

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I would love to find Save The Baby in liquid form. I remember my Mother rubbing it on my chest as a child. I am now 37 and on occasions where I have congestion, I wish I had Save The Baby. Has anyone used the one avail at this site http:/­/­www.elydrugs.biz/­savethebaby.html and does it work just as well? Thanks for any help!

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5% Camphor, white petroleum with oils of Oreganum, Rosemary and Canadian Balsam

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Save the baby came in a bottle but was quite thick in its consistency. I did not heat it up, but just holding the bottle in your hand helped to return it to a liquid state. Yes, it had camphor and/or balsalm in it. YES it really worked for congestion, your congestion either cleared right up or you threw up, and when you did, it was all phlegm. I do find it interesting that the FDA took it off, but left Vick's Vapo-Rub, which also has camphor, and when congestion gets severe, older people swallow a gob of it, as it then performs similiar relief. I watched my Dad do that for 25 yrs after save the baby left, and it sure didn't kill him. Trust me, NO one would have ever everdosed on either of these medicines, they were too too nasty.

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The one with petrolatum in it was the salve, not the syrup, right?

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petrolatum, camphor, oregano, rosemary, and balsam oil

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If ANYONE knows the receipe for Lee's Save the Baby, please reply. I understand the formula is patented, but if I can get a list of ingredients, I will tinker w/it. Yes, I know the FDA stuck their nose in.....hmmm, how many of us actually DIED from: Save the Baby, mercurichrome, merthiolate and Rawleighs Internal Liniment?? (Which by the way you can still get, and it's still as awful, and it still works :))

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We used Save the Baby in the 1970s and got it in Maine. It was made by a family in New York in the late 1800s. It contained Canadian Balsam and was suspended in a lard base. I would heat the bottle up and it would melt into the liquid. Then I would pour a teaspoon into a teaspoon of white sugar and give it to the kids to quiet their coughing. Also you could pour some into a pot of boiling water and breath in the vapors to clear your nose. Our kids are grown and still remember the comfort of Save The Baby. Sorry the FDA got involved.

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It was made by the Lee's company and yes, it is patent protected.

The reason it is no longer available is that it contained Camphor, yes, even in the liquid that was taken internally and the FDA has recognized this as being unsafe. Camphor is now only approved to be used topically.

As to the other ingredients, I am sorry, I have been unable to discover that.

Does anyone else know?

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