A list of Prohibition-era “health tonics.”
Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable compound 20.6% Alcohol (by volume)
Paine’s Celery Compound 21.0%
Dr. William’s Vegetable Jaundice Bitters 18.5%
Whiskol, “a non-intoxicating stimulant” 28.2%
Colden’s Liquid Beef Tonic
“Reccomended for treating the alcohol habit 26.5%
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla 26.2%
Thayer’s Compound Extract of Sarsaparilla 21.5%
Hood’s Sarsaparilla 18.8%
Allen’s Sarsaparilla 13.5%
Dana’s Sarsaparilla 13.5%
Brown’s Sarsaparilla 13.5%
Peruna 28.5%
Vinol, Wine of Cod-Liver Oil 18.8%
Dr. Peter’s Kuriko 14%
Carter’s Physical Extract 22.0%
Hooker’s Wigwam Tonic 20.7%
Hoofland’s German Tonic 29.3%
Howe’s Arabian Tonic, “Not a Rum Drink” 13.2%
Jackson’s Golden Seal Tonic 19.6%
Meensman’s Peptonized Beef Tonic 16.5%
Parker’s Tonic “Purely Vegetable” 41.6%
Schekck’s Seaweed Tonic “Entirely Harmless” 19.5%
Baxter’s Mandrake Bitters 16.5%
Boker’s Stomach Bitters 42.6%
Burdock Blood Bitters 25.5%
Greene’s Nervura 17.2%
Hartshorn’s Bitters 22.2%
Hoofland’s German Bitters “Entirely Vegetable” 25.6%
Hop Bitters 12.0%
Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters 44.3%
Kaufman’s Sulphur Bitters “Contains No Alcohol”
As a matter of fact, it contains 20.5 percent
alcohol and no sulphur at all 20.5%
Puritana 22.0%
Richardson’s Concentrated Sherry Wine Bitters 47.5%
Warner’s Safe Tonic Bitters 35.7%
Warren’s Bilious Bitters 21.5%
Faith Whitcomb’s Nerve Bitters 20.3%
— http://columnistmanifesto.blogspot.com/2007/02/truth-about-temperance-movement.html