Balm of America: Patent Medicine Collection - Introduction
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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
Week's Kidney Pills
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- For complaints caused by a disordered state of the kidneys or bladder, backache, rheumatism, scalding or scanty urine, and for purifying the blood and cleansing the system
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1908-1918
- maker
- D. Weeks and Company
- ID Number
- MG*293320.1286
- catalog number
- 293320.1286
- 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
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
NR Jrs, Nature's Remedy
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- Acts on stomach, kidneys, liver and bowels
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- ca 1930
- maker
- A. H. Lewis Medicine Company
- ID Number
- MG*293320.1258
- accession number
- 293320
- catalog number
- 293320.1258
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
NR Tablets
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- Works on the stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels. Cures constipation.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- after 1906
- maker
- A. H. Lewis Medicine Company
- ID Number
- MG*293320.1261
- accession number
- 293320
- catalog number
- 293320.1261
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
The N. C. (New Century) Stone Root Kidney Cure
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- Positive relief and cure for all acute or chronic kidney, bladder or urinary disorders. It is a valuable remedy in Bright's Disease, gravel, stone in bladder, urinary calculi, uric acid deposits, rheumatism, catarrh of the bladder, pain in the back, headaches, inflammation of the kidney and liver, bladder and urinary passages, convulsions, incontinence of urine, and all blood, heart, skin and other diseases caused by deranged kidneys.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- after 1895
- maker
- United States Pharmacal Company
- ID Number
- MG*293320.1264
- accession number
- 293320
- catalog number
- 293320.1264
- 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
Uncle Ben Jo's Bell Tongue Syrup
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
- A blood purifier, purgative, diuretic alterative, cures all liver, stomach, bowels and kidney diseases, nervous debility, dropsy, scrofula, salt rheum, all skin diseases, worms, gravel and other bladder diseases, ague, cough, cold, heart disease, rheumatism, asthma, bilious and intermittent fevers, jaundice, chronic diarrhea, flatulency, internal inflammation, erysipelas, constipation, dyspepsia, brain diseases, vertigo or dizziness, gout, lumbago, leuccorrhea and all female diseases, epilepsy, swollen feet and limbs, boils, tumors, tetters, scaldhead, ringworm, ulcers and general debility
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- ca 1900
- ca 1880
- maker
- F. Rumsey Gridley
- ID Number
- MG*M-10426 [dup70]
- catalog number
- M-10426
- accession number
- 246707
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center