Balm of America: Patent Medicine Collection - Introduction
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K. & M. Effervescent Bromo Caffeine
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer, or as found in contemporary medical literature, are:
- For brain workers. This delightful effervescent salt is an almost certain remedy for the relief of the nervous headache resulting from overtaxed mental energy or excitement, actue attacks of indigestion, the depression following alcoholif excesses, the supra-sensitiveness of chloral, morphia, and opium habitues, and with ladies the headache and backache of neurasthenia, hysteria, dysmenorrhoea and kindred disorders. A great boon and prompt source of relief in almost all cases of headache and distress attending mental fatigue and physical exhaustion, it commends itself especially to physicians, teachers, clergyman, lawyers, merchants and others following professions or pursuits requiring nerve energy subjecting to mental strain.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- after 1920
- date made
- 1920-1940
- maker
- Keasbey and Mattison Company
- ID Number
- 1979.0798.010
- catalog number
- 1979.0798.010
- accession number
- 1979.0798
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Kodol
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: For dyspepsia and indigestion. A scientific preparation containing pancreatine, pepsin and other well known ingredients skillfully combined for indigestion, heartburn, flatulence, sour-stomach, nausea, sick headache, gastralgia.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1906-1908
- maker
- E. C. DeWitt and Company
- ID Number
- 1979.0798.087
- catalog number
- 1979.0798.087
- accession number
- 1979.0798
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Crampton's Home Tablets No. 3 Diarrhoea
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: Crampton's Home Tablets No. 3 are a perfect remedy for all forms of diarrhea, including dysentery, summer complaint and cholera infantum, also a reliable remedy for vomitting in cases of bilious headache, etc.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- ca 1900
- maker
- Home Tablet Company
- ID Number
- 1979.0798.374
- catalog number
- 1979.0798.374
- accession number
- 1979.0798
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Burdock Blood Bitters
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- For dyspepsia and stomach troubles
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- ca 1935
- ID Number
- MG*293320.1190
- catalog number
- 293320.1190
- accession number
- 293320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Caroid and Soda
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- For dyspepsia and indigestion
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- ca 1930
- maker
- American Ferment Company
- ID Number
- MG*293320.1193
- catalog number
- 293320.1193
- accession number
- 293320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
A.D.S. Pepsin Tablets
- Description
- [No indications or uses for this product are provided on its packaging.]
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- ca 1920
- maker
- American Druggists Syndicate
- ID Number
- MG*293320.1166
- catalog number
- 293320.1166
- accession number
- 293320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
A.D.S. Sodamint Tablets
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- Antacid
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- after 1905
- after 1904
- ca 1930
- maker
- American Druggists Syndicate
- ID Number
- MG*293320.1167
- catalog number
- 293320.1167
- accession number
- 293320
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Atwood's Physical Jannaice Bitters
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- For biliousness due to constipation. Recommended as a laxative, stomachic and carminative, for use in constipation and sour stomach resulting in headache.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1931-1939
- maker
- Wyeth Chemical Company
- ID Number
- MG*293320.1172
- catalog number
- 293320.1172
- 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