Balm of America: Patent Medicine Collection - Introduction
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Sedets
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: Sedative and antispasmodic relief of cramps and headaches associated with functional menstrual pain
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- after 1938
- maker
- Rexall Drug
- ID Number
- 1979.0798.320
- catalog number
- 1979.0798.320
- accession number
- 1979.0798
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Puretest Aspirin Tablets
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: Prescribed generally by physicians for the relief of pain and discomfort in simple headaches and neuralgias, common head colds and muscular aches and pains
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- after 1921
- maker
- United Drug Company
- ID Number
- 1979.0798.402
- catalog number
- 1979.0798.402
- accession number
- 1979.0798
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Ayer's Pills
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- Purely vegetable cathartic
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- after 1840
- maker
- Dr. J. C. Ayer and Company
- ID Number
- MG*293320.1163
- catalog number
- 293320.1163
- accession number
- 293320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Cuticura Ointment
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- For the skin and scalp. A super creamy emollient. Sanative, soothing, healing.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- ca 1940
- maker
- Potter Drug and Chemical Corporation
- ID Number
- MG*293320.1209
- catalog number
- 293320.1209
- accession number
- 293320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Father John's Medicine
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- A food medicine. A nutritive tonic.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- after 1935
- maker
- Carleton and Hovey Company
- ID Number
- MG*293320.1213
- accession number
- 293320
- catalog number
- 293320.1213
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Kennedy's Salt Rheum Ointment
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- Cures salt rheum, scurvy sores, inflammatory piles, erysipelas sores, ulcers on the legs, lichen, frost bites, chilblains, burns and scalds, scald head, sore nipples, nursing sore mouth, ringworms, sore ears, earache, venemous bites, inflamed and sore eyes, chafing and galling on man or beast, and all skin diseases of a hot, itchy or imflammatory nature
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- ca 1900
- maker
- Donald Kennedy
- ID Number
- MG*293320.1220
- catalog number
- 293320.1220
- accession number
- 293320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Hood's Pills
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- For liver ills
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- before 1929
- maker
- C. I. Hood Company
- ID Number
- MG*293320.1315
- catalog number
- 293320.1315
- accession number
- 293320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- Recommended as a vegetable tonic in conditions for which this preparation is adapted
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- after 1906
- ca 1923
- maker
- Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company
- ID Number
- MG*293320.1329
- catalog number
- 293320.1329
- accession number
- 293320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- A sure cure for prolapsis uteris or falling of the womb and all female weaknesses, including leucorrhoea, irregular and painful menstruation, inflammation and ulceration of the womb, flooding, diseases of the kidneys. For all weakness of the generative organs of either sex, it is second to no remedy that has ever been before the public, and for all diseases of the kidneys it is the greatest remedy in the world.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- ca 1890
- after 1873
- maker
- Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company
- ID Number
- MG*293320.1330
- catalog number
- 293320.1330
- accession number
- 293320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Lydia E. Pinkham's Liver Pills
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- For constipation, biliousness and torpidity of the liver
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1908-1918
- maker
- Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company
- ID Number
- MG*293320.1342
- catalog number
- 293320.1342
- accession number
- 293320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center