Dr. E. C. West's Nerve and Brain Treatment

Description:

The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:

For hysteria, dizziness, convulsions, fits, nervous neuralgia, headache, nervous prostration caused by the use of alcohol or tobacco, wakefulness, mental depression, loss of memory, softening of the brain resulting in insanity, premature old age, barrenness, loss of power in either sex, involuntary emissions and spermatorrhoea caused by over exertion of the brain, self-abuse or over indulgence

Date Made: 1870-1906

Maker: John C. West Chemical Company

Location: Currently not on view

Place Made: United States: Illinois, Chicago

Subject: Nerve & Brain DrugsPain & Neuralgia DrugsAphrodisiacs & Potency Drugs

Subject:

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

Exhibition:

Exhibition Location:

Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Edward Mogull

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: MG.M-12151.13Catalog Number: M-12151.13Accession Number: 271464

Object Name: otc preparationOther Terms: otc preparation; Patent Medicines; Drugs; Non-Liquid

Measurements: overall: 2.8 cm x 6.6 cm x 5.4 cm; 1 1/8 in x 2 5/8 in x 2 1/8 in

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-492f-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_716596

Our collection database is a work in progress. We may update this record based on further research and review. Learn more about our approach to sharing our collection online.

If you would like to know how you can use content on this page, see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use. If you need to request an image for publication or other use, please visit Rights and Reproductions.