Balm of America: Patent Medicine Collection
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Pabst's Okay Special
- Description
- [No indications or uses for this product are provided on its packaging]
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- ca 1910
- maker
- Pabst Chemical Company
- ID Number
- MG*M-10426.61
- accession number
- 246707
- catalog number
- M-10426
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
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, acute attacks of indigestion, the depression following alcoholic 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
- 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
Litefoot Corn and Callus Remover
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: Corn and callus remover
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- ca 1930
- maker
- Lite Foot Company
- ID Number
- 1979.0798.171
- catalog number
- 1979.0798.0171
- accession number
- 1979.0798
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Shiloh
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: A palliative or relief for coughs, colds, spasmodic croup, hoarseness, whooping cough, sore throat.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1918-1938
- maker
- S. C. Wells and Company
- ID Number
- 1979.0798.180
- catalog number
- 1979.0798.180
- accession number
- 1979.0798
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
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
Hill's Cold Tablets
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: For relieving the pains and discomforts of headaches, neuralgia and muscular aches and pains caused by or associated with colds
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- ca 1940
- maker
- Whitehall Pharmacal Company
- ID Number
- 1979.0798.409
- catalog number
- 1979.0798.409
- accession number
- 1979.0798
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Criswell's National Corn Remover
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: Removes corns, warts and calluses
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- ca 1920
- maker
- Criswell's Chemical Company
- ID Number
- 1979.0798.352
- catalog number
- 1979.0798.352
- 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
Dill's Tablets of Aspirin
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: Ordinary headache, simple neuralgia, muscular aches and pains
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- ca 1930
- maker
- Dill Company
- ID Number
- 1979.0798.381
- catalog number
- 1979.0798.381
- accession number
- 1979.0798
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center