Name/Title
"Patent Medicine in Ripon"Entry/Object ID
T2025.1.1Description
Artist's Statement: My work uses the sign for Dr. Bosanko's Cough and Lung Syrup as a starting point for imagining how people in Ripon would have consumed questionable patent medicines, before the strict quality controls that we have today. The ingredients of such medicines were generally not disclosed, but researchers at the Agricultural College of North Dakota determined what was in this one. I thus attempted to evoke sensations such as the sweetness of honey, the darkness of tar, the euphoria of morphine, and the revulsion of a fly using assembled materials. It is my hope that, as visitors look at the art, they can imagine someone in Ripon tasting a spoonful of Dr. Bosanko's medicine.Context
Art inspired by the sign, "Dr. Bosanko's Cough and Lung Syrup."Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Class
ArtNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication Objects