Dr. Drake's Cough Remedy - Encased Cent And History

Another one that came in a lot of tokens. Encased 1950-D LWC - Dr. Drake's - The children's cough remedy. For children's croupy coughs use Dr. Drake's.

Interesting history to "Dr. Drake's". It was first sold in 1887 by Glessner Medicine Co. in Findlay OH as "Dr. Drake's German Cough and Croup Remedy". There was a legal battle over the name, as there was an actual Dr. Drake in Findlay who objected to his name being profited on, and began selling his own version. He lost the lawsuit, however. Information about this can be found here Legal fight over the name Dr. Drake's.
It was a snake oil medicine with the active ingredient being opium, so of course it made children stop coughing and go to sleep!

The above is from an ad by Peoples Drug Store in the Washington DC Sunday Star 12/15/1907. I previously posted a token from Peoples Drug Store. In case you were wondering, croup is an infectious disease (usually parainfluenza) and this cough syrup only treated the symptoms and could not cure the disease.
The use of Dr. Drake's led to at least one death (Journal of the American Medical Society 2/15/1908):

After Food and Drugs Act of 1906 and various amendments in the following years, the labeling and ingredients were changed, although none of these appear to be beneficial to treating coughs. The word "German" was dropped from the name in the years leading up to World War I.
Ingredients in the 1940s:

Many of us old-timers remember the family having a bottle of ipecac in the medicine cabinet. It was used to induce vomiting in case of accidental poisoning. Evidently Dr. Drake's tasted horrible and probably why the following was on the box. That's definitely an attribute in a cough medicine that I look for!

I do not think that Dr. Drake's cough medicine is still in business, as I cannot locate it online.