Three Legs brand cooling water

Title
Three Legs brand cooling water
Year/Period
1950s-1990s
Region
Singapore
Material
water, glass, paper, metal
Dimension
Object size: H19.2 x Dia5.1 cm
Accession No.
2010-01252
Collection of
National Museum of Singapore
Credit Line
Gift of Wen Ken Drug Company (Pte) Limited

The trademark logo of Three Legs Brand traditional household medicine consists of three trousers-clad legs connected at the hips. Founded in 1937 by four Chinese in colonial Singapore, one of its popular products was the ‘cooling water’. Prepared from ‘special Chinese raw medicine’, it is said to prevent fever and toothache caused by ‘heatiness’ in the body.

 

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