Vintage 1960s Abbott's Surbex-T Vitamins Drugstore Display Oil of Valerian

Get ready to add a unique touch to your Halloween props or drugstore memorabilia collection with this vintage Surbex-T pharmaceutical drugstore advertisement display. The removable amber glass bottle that reads "Oil of Valerian" is nestled inside an acrylic dome, atop a plastic base that reads "The Better Way...Surbex-T". The bottle reads "Oil of Valerian" and below on the base reads "The dried root of garden heliotrope. Formerly used in medicine, its only real effect was to assault the offactory senses. The presumption was that anything that smelled so vile must have enormous curative powers"

Surbex-T was a vitamin produced by Abbott Laboratories and newspaper advertisements for the product began appearing in 1961. This would have been used to dissuade consumers to abandon traditional remedies such as Oil of Valerian and turn to their new multivitamin instead. The display measures 3.8 inches long x 4.1 inches wide x 4.3 inches tall and weighs 5 ounces. This is a rare and hard-to-f