Balm of America: Patent Medicine Collection - Introduction
"Balm of America: Patent Medicine Collection - Introduction" showing 4 items.
Bull's Cough Syrup
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- Coughs, colds, hoarseness, bronchitis, grippe cough, croup, whooping cough and measles cough; also to relieve cough of asthmatic and consumptive patients in incipient or advanced stages of their disease
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- after 1906
- maker
- A. C. Meyer and Company
- ID Number
- MG*293320.1189
- catalog number
- 293320.1189
- 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. John Bull's Celebrated Pills
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
- A laxative, purgative, tonic, alterative; stimulates liver and bowel functions; tones up the stomach, enriches the blood. For constipation, biliousness, sick headache, disordered sour stomach, torpid liver, loss of appetite, coated tongue, bad breath, dizziness, sallow skin, impure blood, poor blood, periodical complaints of females, and other functional stomach, liver, bowel disorders.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- after 1906
- maker
- A. C. Meyer and Company
- ID Number
- MG*M-10413.21
- catalog number
- M-10413.02
- accession number
- 246707
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Dr. John W. Bull's Celebrated Pills
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
- For constipation, biliousness, sick stomach, indigestion, dyspepsia, loss of appetite, liver trouble, bilious headache, impure blood, blood poverty, skin eruptions, sick headache, nausea, coated tongue, dizziness, debility and pains in the back and loins
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- after 1906
- maker
- A. C. Meyer and Company
- ID Number
- 1989.0711.26
- accession number
- 1989.0711
- catalog number
- 1989.0711.26
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center