Balm of America: Patent Medicine Collection - Introduction
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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
Kickapoo Indian Sagwa Renovator
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- Cures dyspepsia, sick headache, loss of appetite, heartburn, depression, neuralgia, female disorders, liver complaint, constipation, indigestion, rheumatism, impure blood, jaundice, bilious attacks, fever and ague, and all diseases of the stomach, liver, kidneys and the blood
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1881-1906
- after 1881
- maker
- Healy & Bigelow
- ID Number
- MG*293320.1221
- catalog number
- 293320.1221
- accession number
- 293320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Newton's Jaundice Bitters
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- Are good in all bilious affectations, jaundice, dyspepsia, fever and ague, hypochondria, hysterics, flatulence, costitiveness, diarrhea, indigestion, asthma, worms, catarrh, sick headache, and the liver complaint
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- ca 1880
- ID Number
- MG*293320.1269
- accession number
- 293320
- catalog number
- 293320.1269
- 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
Mountain Herb Bitters
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
- For dyspepsia, liver complaint, fever and ague, and general debility of the system
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- ca 1900
- maker
- Dr. J. W. Wengert and Company
- ID Number
- MG*M-10426 [dup57]
- catalog number
- M-10426
- accession number
- 246707
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Laxa-Wafers Laxative Cathartic Liver Remedy
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
- For constipation, sick headache, biliousness, indigestion, sour, gassy stomach, bad breath, sallow complexion, malaria, colds or grippe, bad blood or skin eruptions, or any other trouble where a reliable laxative and liver remedy is required
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1908-1918
- maker
- Sharp and Dohme
- American Croxone Company
- ID Number
- MG*M-10413.22
- catalog number
- M-10413.22
- accession number
- 246707
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Weismann's Bitterer Ansatz
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
- For constipation, dyspepsia, fever and ague, piles, jaundice, headache, female irregularities, malaria, impurities of blood, rheumatism
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- ca 1890
- maker
- A. W. Weismann
- ID Number
- MG*M-12151.26
- catalog number
- 314016.30
- M-12151
- accession number
- 271464
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Thermaline
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
- For chills; fever; ague; dumb ague; intermittent fever; all malarial diseases; enlarged spleen; ague cake; remittent, intermittent, periodic, continuous, swamp, bilious, congestive and simple fevers; liver disorders; kidney disease; jaundice; general debility; poverty of the blood; neuralgia; female debility; dyspepsia
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- ca 1890
- ca 1885-1906
- ca 1880
- maker
- Dundas Dick and Company
- ID Number
- MG*M-12151.06A
- catalog number
- M-12151.06A
- accession number
- 271464
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center