A New Name

ID: 1206 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Waco Tribune-Herald

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In 1938, the Food and Drug Administration ruled that Baby Percy Medicine was for use by children only, due to its name. Although Merrick Medicine Company then changed the name of the preparation to reach a wider customer base, the packing continues to bear the face of young Albert Percy today.

This file appears in: Percy Medicine Building

Percy Medicine Building

By Terri Jo Ryan

A proudly old-fashioned medicine in retro packaging that features a turn-of-the-twentieth-century tot is not only a vestige of Waco’s drug store past—it is a part of its present as well. The preparation known since 1938 as Percy Medicine was born in…