Balm of America: Patent Medicine Collection - Introduction
"Balm of America: Patent Medicine Collection - Introduction" showing 12 items.
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Carter's Little Liver Pills
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- For headache, torpid liver, constipation and the complexion
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- after 1880
- maker
- Carter Medicine Company
- ID Number
- MG*293320.1195
- catalog number
- 293320.1195
- accession number
- 293320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Atwood's Jaundice Bitters
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- Recommended for jaundice, headache, dyspepsia, worms, dizziness, loss of appetite, darting pains, colds and fevers. For cleansing the blood of humors and moistening the skin. Also for liver complaints, strangury, dropsy, croup and phthisis.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1908-1918
- maker
- Hall & Ruckel
- ID Number
- MG*293320.1173
- accession number
- 293320
- catalog number
- 293320.1173
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Dr. J. Walker's Vinegar Bitters
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- Dyspepsia, indigestion, rheumatism, diarrhea, consumption, catarrh, bronchitis, neuralgia, headache, boils, ulcers, sore eyes, dropsy, scald head, paralysis, erysipelas, scrofula, tetter, skin diseases, bilious, remittant and intermittant fevers, pains in the back, shoulders, heart and chest, liver and kidney troubles, stomach ache, jaundice, gout and fits, dizziness, colds and coughs, croup, palpitation of the heart, lead colic, nausea, biliousness, constipation, piles, worms
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1870-1890
- maker
- R. H. McDonald Drug Company
- ID Number
- MG*293320.1284
- catalog number
- 293320.1284
- accession number
- 293320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Steketee's Neuralgia Drops
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- Neuralgia, rheumatism, kidney and liver complaints, chronic headache and pains in the back
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- ca 1900
- maker
- George G. Steketee
- ID Number
- MG*293320.1381
- catalog number
- 293320.1381
- 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
Akerue French Liver and Kidney Regulator
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
- A liver and kidney regulator; blood purifier. For costiveness and constipation; all forms of liver and kidney complaints; Bright's Disease of the kidney; diabetes; catarrh of the bladder; gravel and stricture; malaria; sick, bilious or nervous headache; neuralgia; rheumatism; loss of sleep, appetite or energy; tired, weary feeling; melancholy; dry, hacking cough or not feeling well; more tired on rising in the morning than on retiring; irregularity of the bowels.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- ca 1900
- maker
- Akerue Medicine Company
- ID Number
- MG*M-10413
- catalog number
- M-10413
- accession number
- 246707
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Dr. Flint's Quaker Bitters
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
- A stomach tonic. For nervousness, catarrh of the head and stomach, scrofulous humor, canker, pimples and humors on the face, summer complaints, female weaknesses. Restores the appetite, purifies the blood. For dyspepsia, constipation, sick headache, dizziness, low spirits caused by disordered stomach, rheumatism, neuralgia, kidney and liver complaints, bilious attacks, piles, malaria, torpidity of the system, languor, general debility, fever and ague.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- before 1906
- 1885-1908
- ca 1890-1906
- ca 1885-1906
- maker
- Quaker Bitters Company
- ID Number
- MG*M-12151.01
- catalog number
- M-12151.01
- accession number
- 271464
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Ripans
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging: For dyspepsia, biliousness, constipation, heartburn, headache, indigestion, sour stomach or bad breath and to regulate the stomach and bowels. A very useful laxative for those whose habits are sedentary.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- ca 1900
- ID Number
- 1980.0698.013
- accession number
- 1980.0698
- catalog number
- 1980.0698.013
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Nelaton's Remedy for Rheumatism, Gout and Neuralgia
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
- For rheumatism, gout, and neuralgia. For acute, chronic, inflammatory, muscular and neuralgic forms; rheumatism of joints and heart; rheumatic gout; gout in the small joints and stomach; neuralgic rheumatism and gout; neuralgia of heart and face; sciatica. A splendid liver regulator.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1906-1908
- maker
- Nelaton Remedy Company
- ID Number
- MG*M-10426 [dup62]
- catalog number
- M-10426
- accession number
- 246707
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Dr. Kilmer's Prompt Parilla Liver Pills
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
- For headache, drowsiness, bad taste in the mouth, torpid liver, constipation, biliousness, nausea, flatulence, belching of wind, sour stomach, distress after eating, poor appetite, the complexion
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- ca 1900
- maker
- Dr. Kilmer and Company
- ID Number
- MG*M-10413.02
- catalog number
- M-10413.02
- accession number
- 246707
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center