Balm of America: Patent Medicine Collection - Introduction
"Balm of America: Patent Medicine Collection - Introduction" showing 21 items.
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Litefoot Corn and Callus Remover
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: Corn and callus remover
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- ca 1930
- maker
- Lite Foot Company
- ID Number
- 1979.0798.171
- catalog number
- 1979.0798.0171
- accession number
- 1979.0798
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Criswell's National Corn Remover
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: Removes corns, warts and calluses
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- ca 1920
- maker
- Criswell's Chemical Company
- ID Number
- 1979.0798.352
- catalog number
- 1979.0798.352
- accession number
- 1979.0798
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Tiz For Tender Feet
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- Relieve tired, aching, swollen and sweaty feet, chilblains and frost bites, corns, bunions, ingrown nails and calluses
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- ca 1920
- maker
- Walter Luther Dodge Company
- ID Number
- MG*293320.1278
- catalog number
- 293320.1278
- accession number
- 293320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Gets-It
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- For corns and calluses
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- after 1928
- maker
- Gets-It Incorporated
- ID Number
- MG*293320.1299
- catalog number
- 293320.1299
- accession number
- 293320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Heneph's Red Salve Liniment
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- For headache, neuralgia, rheumatism, colds in the chest, pneumonia, asthma, bronchitis, croup, pleurisy, neuritis, sore joints and muscles, chilblains, tired, aching feet, etc.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- ca 1920
- maker
- Heneph Company Inc.
- ID Number
- MG*293320.1302
- catalog number
- 293320.1302
- accession number
- 293320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Excelsior Corn Eradicator
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- Removes corns and calluses
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- after 1906
- maker
- C. S. Littell and Company
- ID Number
- MG*293320.1320
- catalog number
- 293320.1320
- accession number
- 293320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Peterson's Ointment
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- Cures eczema, bleeding and itching piles, and old sores, burns, sore nipples, salt rheum, tired and tender feet, corns, catarrh, chafing
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- ca 1925
- maker
- Peterson Brothers
- ID Number
- MG*293320.1336
- catalog number
- 293320.1336
- accession number
- 293320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Salvation Oil
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
- For rheumatism, neuralgia, gout, sciatica, backache, quinsy, sore throat, stiffness of the neck and joints, sprains, cuts and wounds, lumbago, scalds and burns, headache, toothache, earache, bruises, eruptions, sores and swellings, inflammations, chilblains, frostbites, frosted feet, chapped hands and face, bites and stings of poisonous insects, weak ankles and joints, sore feet, pain in the back and limbs, ulcerated sores, inflammation of the breast, dislocations, or other bodily pains and aches. As a horse and cattle lotion it has no rival.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1906-1908
- maker
- A. C. Meyer and Company
- ID Number
- MG*M-10409 [dup2]
- catalog number
- M-10409
- accession number
- 246707
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Dr. Scholl's Foot Balm
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: For relief of sore, tender, aching, perspiring feet, corns, bunions and pain of rheumatism.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- after 1933
- maker
- Scholl Manufacturing Company
- ID Number
- 1979.0798.207
- accession number
- 1979.0798
- catalog number
- 1979.0798.207
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Crane's Penetrating Liniment
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: Externally for rheumatism, sciatica, neuralgia, sprains, sore muscles, lame back, lumbago, stiff joints, wounds, tender feet, etc.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- ca 1900
- maker
- Crane Medicine Co.
- ID Number
- 1979.0798.132
- accession number
- 1979.0798
- catalog number
- 1979.0798.132
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center