Heres an old tin ive just picked up. Unusual as it is a double ended tin with one lid missing unfortunately. Is it a common tin?

Hi Wizard

Very nice "quack medicine" tin from around 1890. When I first looked at it I thought it was American but I found an ad for the pill form of this product in an 1890 issue of The Wrexham (Wales) Advertiser.

I have never seen this tin before, but there was thousands of these "cures" manufactured in the late 1800's - early 1900's. I can't remember his name and I'm not sure if he is still around but there was am AA member that had a vast collection of these type of products. I'm sure he could tell us more.

Here's the text from the Welsh newspaper.

Advertisements for 'alternative' remedies appeared irregularly in the Wrexham press but
such products claimed to be able to cure as many medical complaints as their synthetic
counterparts. “Kehotah Kidney and Liver Pills” claimed to have been discovered by
Kehotak, “the mighty Indian chief and medicine man of the Upper Mississippi Valley”,
One large tin of Kehotak's remedy was
guaranteed to cure any irregularity if the human system, check all discharges and
derangements of the Urinary organs, pains in the Back and Loins, Gravel and
General Debility, and Loss of Memory of either sex ... the Cure of Diabetes or
Bright's Disease, and is a most Powerful Brain and Nerve Tonic.
The advertisement came with a small picture of Kehotak, recognizable by virtue of a
feather sticking out of the top of his head. Customers were warned to be wary of
imitations, the original product costing four shillings and sixpence.

A GIFT TO ALL FREE.
TO ALL WHO ARE SUFFERING from Chronic Kidney and Liver Diseases, Diabetes, or Bright's Disease, or any discharges and derangements of the human body, nervous weakness, general debility, gravel, rheumatism, sciatica, lassitude, loss of memory, want of brain power. To introduce it I will send genuine information, free of charge, of a new cheap, and sure cure, the simplest remedy on earth, discovered in the Mississippi Valley.
Send a self-addressed stamped envelope to JAMES HOLLAND, 25, Hart street, High Holborn, London. - Mention this paper.

brilliant!!  great info,  bought this tin in a car boot sale and guess where,  wrexham