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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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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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petrolatum, camphor, oregano, rosemary, and balsam oil

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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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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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I have an ear ache and the only thing that ever helped was to put Save The Baby on a piece of cotton and put it in your ear -- the warmth and the smell was so comforting! My mom never gave it to us orally - she used it as a rub (chest and across the nose for the stuffed nasal passages) and for ear aches. I really would like to be able to have some of this NOW!

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

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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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Daisy, Charon, Cindy and Sally Alligator
Thank you all for your responses and information. I knew I wasn't the only one that knew how good that medicine was or what happened to it. Daisy- Thanks for letting me know where I could find more information. No other real info showed up on Google or anything and I was out of ideas as to where to look. Cindy - Thank you for the ingredient list. I may try to figure out how to combine these somehow. Thanks!

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My kids giggled as they heard me yelling in delight over your post. For years I told them about how my mother gave us Save the Baby and would have us eat a gob of Vicks rolled in sugar whenever we got congested. They thought I was nuts, but by golly it worked!!!

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Laureen-I am currently setting up a doctor's office in the town of North Creek. This is the town where Dr. William Lee practiced medicine for many many years eventually becoming the Town Health Officer. I know this is bold but any chance you would concider allowing us to display your bottle of "Save The Baby" in the exhibit that should run through the fall at which time it will be returned to you.

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No, it is not the same at all. I'm so disappointed. We bought a blue bottle without the "Krause" label 20 years ago and it worked well even though it was not like the original glass bottle formula. This "Krause" version smells different and isn't as soothing to breathe in. Also leaves a rash on my toddlers. Not good.

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Save the Baby when we had it was in a small bottle in liquid form. Our mother would give it to us with a teaspoon of sugar and put a couple of drops of Save the baby on it. Plus she rubbed our chest and backs with it. Nobody in our family died from ingesting it and I could use some now when bronchitis hits or the flu. The only reason you can't find it like you use to is because it was eating at the governments money because we was using those old folk remedies and they were working better than the doctors were. That's why you can't find many remedies because they don't want you to find them, because it might put them out of business.

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The Original save the baby had balsam, camphor, rosemary, oregano, and petrolatum. Camphor can be toxic because while it may not kill you it can ulcerate the stomach. My mother used a mixture aloe of juice balsam,Licorice root, rosemary, oregano, Sage, licorice and mullein flowers. She would make a reduction of everything but the aloe. Strain it out and add it to twice the amount of Aloe juice. Shake very well before use. Two tblspoons with sugar or honey. I am from Maine and as a child I experienced both my family's recipe as well as Save the Baby. They both taste awful and work equally well. I am now an adult as well as a practicing Herbalist and honestly, the risks of orally ingesting camphor outway the benefits. If you feel that camphor needs to be present I recommend that you get the STB chest rub and use it in conjunction with an oral remedy.

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Brian, I just came upon these posts. I, too, have two remaining bottles of Save the Baby and have tried for years to find out if it is still being made in the liquid form. Do you know the name of the company the formula was sold to in Canada and would you happen to know if they still make the liquid form. We never took it orally, but it was wonderful rubbed on our chests and a little bit put under our noses and on our pillowcase. Thank you.

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I have a old bottle of save the baby. Small clear bottle with a red cap. Still half full of white thick almost liquid. Labels in tact and legible.

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The product you speak of do work. I use it with both of my children and sometimes myself. Although it is not quite the same as what was used on us as children ourselves. That was a liquid version which I think was more effective, but this ointment works well

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Ms Laura, I'm checking to see if you still know where to find bottles of Save the baby? I would be interested in finding it for my grandson who suffers from Ashma and I know it works because I have tried it on my children who used to have Ashma and it cured them

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I remember my mother giving me save the baby back in the '50's. She also gave me a gob of Vick's vapo rub and sugar orally. YUCK!!!! I can still taste it. But it worked!

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I have a one oz Amber colored bottle of Save the Baby from 1939. Did anyone ever see the amber bottle?

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