Unique antique Dr BOUVIER BUCHU kidney GIN flask early BIM Pre-Pro FLASK

Description

A
6" tall
clear-glass rectangular flat-shaped antique
Dr. BOUVIER'S BUCHU GIN flask
.  This is a very early hand
B
lown
I
nto
M
old bottle (
BIM
) with a tooled top, dating it well back into the 1800's.
Bottle embossed
:   "
BOUVIER / BUCHU GIN
".
Condition
:   This bottle is in very GOOD condition. It has white cloudy stain, NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc.   PLEASE see pictures for better idea of overall condition.
Age
: An early hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a tooled-top, ca.
late 1800's.
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Buchu gin, was a concoction made by straining gin through the leaves of the Latin American Buchu plant, which in doing, supposedly absorbed the medicinal properties of the plant into the gin.  At that point the gin supposedly became
a medicine and one "Dr." Bouvier started marketing his Buchu and Kidney Gin for those suffering from
kidney and bladder diseases.   Some of these bottles are even embossed 'KIDNEY' gin and there are some references that the gin was also used to treat general debility, a term loosely affiliated with impotence.   It turns out that the good Dr.
C. Bouvier of Louisville, Kentucky, was probably just a factional character as his identity has been about as hard to prove as his Gin's ability to cure impotence.   Anyway, the story goes on but the point is, this is one of the smaller bottles he used to bottle his Buchu Gin in.  You have to wonder ... if this concoction was advertised as a Kidney and Bladder Remedy and marketed for this purpose, why was it bottled in a flask that was designed to carry liquor in the pocket for?
C
heck it out!
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