Zoa-Phora

Description:

The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging: For all forms of female weakness, painful, scanty, delayed or declining periods, spasms at month, local discharges or whites, impaired complexion, sick headache, neuralgia, debility, goneness, falling of the womb, arising from want of tone in the system, preparatory treatment for confinement, after-pains, change of life, hot flushes, wakefulness, bloating, etc.

Date Made: after 1905

Maker: Zoa-Phora Company

Location: Currently not on view

Place Made: United States: Michigan, Kalamazoo

Subject: Women's Health ProductsWomen's Health

Subject:

See more items in: Medicine and Science: Medicine, Health & Medicine, Balm of America

Exhibition:

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Credit Line: Gift of Mary E. and Joseph F. Melfi, Jr., Tupper's Drug Store, Summerville, South Carolina

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: 1980.0698.068Accession Number: 1980.0698Catalog Number: 1980.0698.068

Object Name: otc preparationOther Terms: Patent Medicines; Drugs; Liquid

Physical Description: cardboard (overall packaging material)glass (overall packaging material)mandrake (podophyllum) (drug active ingredients)black cohosh (cimicifuga racemosa) (drug active ingredients)blue cohosh (caulophyllum thalactroides) (drug active ingredients)life root (semecio aureus) (drug active ingredients)roman chamomile flowers (anthemis nobilis) (drug active ingredients)false unicorn root (helonias dioica) (drug active ingredients)cramp bark (zibernum opulus) (drug active ingredients)Measurements: box: 8 in x 3 3/8 in x 2.375 cm; 20.32 cm x 8.5725 cm x 15/16 inpaper inserts, as stored: 16 in x 26 in; 40.64 cm x 66.04 cmbottle: 7 3/8 in x 2 3/4 in x 2 in; 18.7325 cm x 6.985 cm x 5.08 cm

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a7-51d6-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_715808

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