Ayer's Cathartic Pills
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging: Cathartic
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- ca 1900
- 1910-1920
- maker
- Dr. J. C. Ayer and Company
- Place Made
- United States: Massachusetts, Lowell
- Physical Description
- paper (overall packaging material)
- jalap (drug active ingredients)
- ginger (drug active ingredients)
- aloes (drug active ingredients)
- gamboge (drug active ingredients)
- colocynth pulp (drug active ingredients)
- podophyllin (drug active ingredients)
- oil peppermint (drug active ingredients)
- oil spearmint (drug active ingredients)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 1/4 in x 2 1/4 in x 7/8 in; 3.175 cm x 5.715 cm x 2.2225 cm
- ID Number
- 1980.0698.011
- accession number
- 1980.0698
- catalog number
- 1980.0698.011
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mary E. and Joseph F. Melfi, Jr., Tupper's Drug Store, Summerville, South Carolina
- subject
- Laxatives
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Balm of America
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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