Balm of America: Patent Medicine Collection - Therapeutic Use Categories
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"Balm of America: Patent Medicine Collection - Therapeutic Use Categories" showing 5 items.
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
Lydia E. Pinkham's Herb Medicine
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: Recommended as an alterative tonic in conditions for which this preparation is adapted.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- ca 1940
- maker
- Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company
- ID Number
- 1979.0798.019
- accession number
- 1979.0798
- catalog number
- 1979.0798.019
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Lydia E. Pinkham's Herb Medicine
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
- A purely vegetable alterative tonic
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- ca 1930
- maker
- Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company
- ID Number
- MG*M-10766 [dup44]
- catalog number
- M-10766
- accession number
- 256193
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center