Balm of America: Patent Medicine Collection - Introduction
"Balm of America: Patent Medicine Collection - Introduction" showing 9 items.
Cascarets
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- For the cure of chronic constipation. Liver stimulant, strengthen the bowels, make pure blood.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1908-1918
- maker
- Sterling Remedy Company
- ID Number
- MG*293320.1201
- catalog number
- 293320.1201
- accession number
- 293320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Foley's Family Pills
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- For constipation, biliousness and headache
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- ca 1910
- maker
- Foley and Company
- ID Number
- MG*293320.1310
- catalog number
- 293320.1310
- accession number
- 293320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
The N. C. (New Century) Stone Root Kidney Cure
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- Positive relief and cure for all acute or chronic kidney, bladder or urinary disorders. It is a valuable remedy in Bright's Disease, gravel, stone in bladder, urinary calculi, uric acid deposits, rheumatism, catarrh of the bladder, pain in the back, headaches, inflammation of the kidney and liver, bladder and urinary passages, convulsions, incontinence of urine, and all blood, heart, skin and other diseases caused by deranged kidneys.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- after 1895
- maker
- United States Pharmacal Company
- ID Number
- MG*293320.1264
- accession number
- 293320
- catalog number
- 293320.1264
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
V-O Pills
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging: For constipation, liver and stomach disorders, biliousness, headache, bad breath, dizziness
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1906-1918
- maker
- Theo. Noel Company
- ID Number
- 1980.0698.035
- accession number
- 1980.0698
- catalog number
- 1980.0698.035
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Hamlin's Blood & Liver Pills
- Description
- [No indications or uses for this product are provided on its packaging.]
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- after 1880
- maker
- Hamlin's Wizard Oil Company
- ID Number
- MG*M-10413.14
- catalog number
- M-10413.14
- accession number
- 246707
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Foley Cathartic Tablets
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
- For disorders of the stomach, liver, and bowels caused by constipation
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- after 1906
- maker
- Foley and Company
- ID Number
- MG*M-10413.29
- catalog number
- M-10413.29
- accession number
- 246707
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Dr. Strong's Life Force Pills
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: Dr. Strong's Life Force Pills will positively cure biliousness and bilious headache, constipation, sick and nervous headache, torpid liver, nausea, jaundice, general debility, indigestion, malaria, fever and ague, sluggish bowels, dizziness, cramps, loss of appetite, sour stomach, sallow skin, and are an invaluable aid in curing piles, colds, and "grip."
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- ca 1905
- maker
- Chicago Vaporizer Company
- ID Number
- 1979.0798.104
- accession number
- 1979.0798
- catalog number
- 1979.0798.104
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Foley Cathartic Tablets
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: A wholesome and cleansing cathartic, active and useful for constipation and its ill effects, for sluggish liver and bowels, biliousness, and sick headache due to constipation. They are excellent in cases of habitual constipation, as they have a laxative influence upon the entire intestinal tract.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- ca 1920
- maker
- Foley and Company
- ID Number
- 1979.0798.343
- accession number
- 1979.0798
- catalog number
- 1979.0798.343
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Dr. Reeder's Little Liver Pills
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
- A cure for constipation, sick headache, indigestion, chills and fever, liver complaint, in all its forms. It gives great satisfaction to ladies suffering of tired feeling.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1908-1918
- maker
- Harts Medicine Company
- ID Number
- 1989.0711.46
- accession number
- 1989.0711
- catalog number
- 1989.0711.46
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center