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Allan's Nervine

The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: Sedative for simple nervousness and restlessness.Currently not on view
Description
The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: Sedative for simple nervousness and restlessness.
Location
Currently not on view
maker
Allan and Company
ID Number
1985.0475.336
catalog number
1985.0475.336
accession number
1985.0475

Dr. Pean's French Pills

The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: For all pale and weak persons.
Description
The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: For all pale and weak persons. These great French pills are endorsed, prescribed and recommended by all the European and American hospitals for the postive cure of nervousness, dizziness and all blood impurities, giving strength and tone to the system in general.
Location
Currently not on view
Date made
ca 1898
date made
1898-1906
1898 - 1906
ca 1898
maker
Pean Medical Company
ID Number
1984.0782.147
accession number
1984.0782
catalog number
1984.0782.147

Tranquil Aid

The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: For relief of functional nervous symptoms such as nervous tension, headaches, restlessness, nervous irritabiltyCurrently not on view
Description
The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: For relief of functional nervous symptoms such as nervous tension, headaches, restlessness, nervous irritabilty
Location
Currently not on view
distributor
Thompson Medical Company
ID Number
1985.0475.582
accession number
1985.0475
catalog number
1985.0475.582

Dr. Pean's French Pills

The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: Nervousness, dizziness and all blood impurities, giving strength and tone to the system in generalCurrently not on view
Description
The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: Nervousness, dizziness and all blood impurities, giving strength and tone to the system in general
Location
Currently not on view
Date made
after 1899
maker
Pean Medical Company
ID Number
1984.0782.148
accession number
1984.0782
catalog number
1984.0782.148

Tongaline Tablets

The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:For rheumatism, neuralgia, la grippe, nervous headache, gout, sciatica, or wherever the salicylates are indicatedCurrently not on view
Description
The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
For rheumatism, neuralgia, la grippe, nervous headache, gout, sciatica, or wherever the salicylates are indicated
Location
Currently not on view
Date made
1908-1918
maker
Mellier Drug Company
ID Number
MG.M-10413.49
catalog number
M-10413
accession number
246707

Kickapoo Indian Pills

The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: For constipation, sick headache, nervousness and the complexion.Currently not on view
Description
The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: For constipation, sick headache, nervousness and the complexion.
Location
Currently not on view
Date made
1881-1906
ca 1900
maker
Healy & Bigelow
Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company
ID Number
MG.293320.1222
catalog number
293320.1222
accession number
293320

Uncle Ben Jo's Bell Tongue Syrup

The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:A blood purifier, purgative, diuretic alterative, cures all liver, stomach, bowels and kidney diseases, nervous debility, dropsy, scrofula, salt rheum, all skin diseases, worms, gravel and other bladder disease
Description
The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
A blood purifier, purgative, diuretic alterative, cures all liver, stomach, bowels and kidney diseases, nervous debility, dropsy, scrofula, salt rheum, all skin diseases, worms, gravel and other bladder diseases, ague, cough, cold, heart disease, rheumatism, asthma, bilious and intermittent fevers, jaundice, chronic diarrhea, flatulency, internal inflammation, erysipelas, constipation, dyspepsia, brain diseases, vertigo or dizziness, gout, lumbago, leuccorrhea and all female diseases, epilepsy, swollen feet and limbs, boils, tumors, tetters, scaldhead, ringworm, ulcers and general debility
Location
Currently not on view
Date made
ca 1900
ca 1880
maker
F. Rumsey Gridley
ID Number
MG.M-10426.66
catalog number
M-10426
accession number
246707

Dr. Flint's Quaker Bitters

The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:A stomach tonic. For nervousness, catarrh of the head and stomach, scrofulous humor, canker, pimples and humors on the face, summer complaints, female weaknesses. Restores the appetite, purifies the blood.
Description
The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
A stomach tonic. For nervousness, catarrh of the head and stomach, scrofulous humor, canker, pimples and humors on the face, summer complaints, female weaknesses. Restores the appetite, purifies the blood. For dyspepsia, constipation, sick headache, dizziness, low spirits caused by disordered stomach, rheumatism, neuralgia, kidney and liver complaints, bilious attacks, piles, malaria, torpidity of the system, languor, general debility, fever and ague.
date made
1885-1908
maker
Quaker Bitters Company
ID Number
MG.M-12151.01
catalog number
M-12151.01
accession number
271464

Haine's Golden Specific

The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:A positive cure for the liquor habit, allaying all desire for alcoholic stimulants, quieting and strengthening the nervous systemCurrently not on view
Description
The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
A positive cure for the liquor habit, allaying all desire for alcoholic stimulants, quieting and strengthening the nervous system
Location
Currently not on view
Date made
ca 1880
ca 1890
maker
Golden Specific Company
ID Number
MG.293320.1325
catalog number
293320.1325
accession number
293320

Papine

[No indications or uses for this product are provided on its packaging.]Currently not on view
Description
[No indications or uses for this product are provided on its packaging.]
Location
Currently not on view
Date made
ca 1900
maker
Battle and Company Chemists Corporation
ID Number
MG.293320.1394
catalog number
293320.1394
accession number
293320

Bromo Soda

The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:For sick and nervous headache, indigestion and insomnia, sleeplessness, excessive study, dyspepsia, acute migraine, nervous debility, mania, depression following alcoholic and other excessives, mental and physi
Description
The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
For sick and nervous headache, indigestion and insomnia, sleeplessness, excessive study, dyspepsia, acute migraine, nervous debility, mania, depression following alcoholic and other excessives, mental and physical exhaustion, brain fatigue, sea sickness
Location
Currently not on view
Date made
1906-1908
ID Number
MG.M-10410.12
catalog number
M-10410
accession number
246707

Pastor Koenig's Nervine

The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: Epilespy; Sleep Restorer; Falling Sickness; Fits; After Effects of Inebriety; HystericsCurrently not on view
Description
The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: Epilespy; Sleep Restorer; Falling Sickness; Fits; After Effects of Inebriety; Hysterics
Location
Currently not on view
Date made
1906 - 1916
maker
Koenig Medicine Company
ID Number
MG.M-10426.20
catalog number
M-10426
accession number
246707
246707

Akerue! French Liver and Kidney Regulator

The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:A liver and kidney regulator; blood purifier.
Description
The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
A liver and kidney regulator; blood purifier. For costiveness and constipation; all forms of liver and kidney complaints; Bright's Disease of the kidney; diabetes; catarrh of the bladder; gravel and stricture; malaria; sick, bilious or nervous headache; neuralgia; rheumatism; loss of sleep, appetite or energy; tired, weary feeling; melancholy; dry, hacking cough or not feeling well; more tired on rising in the morning than on retiring; irregularity of the bowels.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
ca 1900
maker
Akerue Medicine Company
ID Number
MG.M-10413.13
catalog number
M-10413
accession number
246707

Salfene

The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:For pain and fever. Antipyretic, anodyne, sedative, anti-neuralgia and anti-rheumatic.Currently not on view
Description
The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
For pain and fever. Antipyretic, anodyne, sedative, anti-neuralgia and anti-rheumatic.
Location
Currently not on view
Date made
after 1898
maker
Salfene Chemical Company
ID Number
MG.293320.1364
catalog number
293320.1364
accession number
293320

Bottle

Amber glass bottle with embossed inscription that reads "WARNER'S / SAFE / KIDNEY & LIVER / CURE / ROCHESTER N.Y." Hulbert Harrington Warner (1842-1923), a businessman who manufactured fire- and burglar-proof safes, purchased a medicinal formula from Charles Craig, a local doctor
Description
Amber glass bottle with embossed inscription that reads "WARNER'S / SAFE / KIDNEY & LIVER / CURE / ROCHESTER N.Y." Hulbert Harrington Warner (1842-1923), a businessman who manufactured fire- and burglar-proof safes, purchased a medicinal formula from Charles Craig, a local doctor, and created a multi-million-dollar patent medicine business. Warner also endowed an astronomical observatory.
Location
Currently not on view
Date made
c. 1910
maker
H. H. Warner and Company
ID Number
MG.65.2077
accession number
256516
catalog number
65.2077

Emerson's Bromo-Seltzer

The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:Remedy for nervous headache, neuralgia, brain fatigue, sleeplessness, over-brain work, depression following alcoholic and other excesses, mental exhaustionCurrently not on view
Description
The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
Remedy for nervous headache, neuralgia, brain fatigue, sleeplessness, over-brain work, depression following alcoholic and other excesses, mental exhaustion
Location
Currently not on view
Date made
after 1906
maker
Emerson Drug Company
ID Number
MG.293320.1301
catalog number
293320.1301
accession number
293320

Brown's Iron Bitters Compound

The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:For indigestion, intermittent fevers, want of appetite, nervous prostration, fainting, lack of energy, malaria, heartburn, dyspeptic symptomsCurrently not on view
Description
The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
For indigestion, intermittent fevers, want of appetite, nervous prostration, fainting, lack of energy, malaria, heartburn, dyspeptic symptoms
Location
Currently not on view
Date made
after 1906
after 1908
maker
Brown's Iron Bitters Company
ID Number
MG.M-10426.47
catalog number
M-10426
accession number
246707

K. & M. Effervescent Bromo Caffeine

The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: Headache; mental fatigue; physical exhaustionCurrently not on view
Description
The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: Headache; mental fatigue; physical exhaustion
Location
Currently not on view
Date made
After May 18, 1920
maker
Keasbey & Mattison Company
ID Number
MG.254865.11
accession number
254865
catalog number
254865.11

Phenyo-Caffein

The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:For sick and nervous headache; neuralgia; rheumatism; lumbago; nervousness; sleeplessness; feverishness; colds and la grippe.Currently not on view
Description
The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
For sick and nervous headache; neuralgia; rheumatism; lumbago; nervousness; sleeplessness; feverishness; colds and la grippe.
Location
Currently not on view
Date made
after 1906
maker
Phenyo-Caffein Company
ID Number
MG.M-10413.42
catalog number
M-10413
accession number
246707

Foley's Kidney Cure

The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:For incipient Bright's disease, chronic inflammation of the bladder, gravel, irritation of the kidneys, diabetes and nervous exhaustion.Currently not on view
Description
The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
For incipient Bright's disease, chronic inflammation of the bladder, gravel, irritation of the kidneys, diabetes and nervous exhaustion.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
before 1906
maker
Foley and Company
ID Number
MG.M-09905.01
catalog number
M-09905
accession number
238503

Alexander's Liver and Kidney Tonic

The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:Neuralgic or rheumatic pains in the back, side or limbs, sick headache, liver complaint, kidney affections, dyspepsia, jaundice, loss of appetite, debility, giddiness, nervous diseases, weakness, and com
Description
The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
Neuralgic or rheumatic pains in the back, side or limbs, sick headache, liver complaint, kidney affections, dyspepsia, jaundice, loss of appetite, debility, giddiness, nervous diseases, weakness, and complaints peculiar to females, and all diseases arising from a disordered stomach or liver
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1890-1906
maker
W. W. Alexander and Company
ID Number
MG.M-10719.01
catalog number
M-10719
accession number
254860

Ner-Vigor

The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: one teaspoonful to be taken two or three times a day in half a wineglass of water after meals ones directed by the PhysicianCurrently not on view
Description
The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: one teaspoonful to be taken two or three times a day in half a wineglass of water after meals ones directed by the Physician
Location
Currently not on view
Date made
1906-1908
maker
Anglo-American Pharmaceutical Company
ID Number
MG.M-07229
catalog number
M-07229
accession number
220009

Dr. Sawen's Life Invigorating Bitters

The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:Dyspeptic remedy and blood purifyer.
Description
The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
Dyspeptic remedy and blood purifyer. A great tonic acting upon the stomach and liver correcting the secretions and providing a certain remedy for dyspepsia, liver compaints, biliousness, nervous debility, loss of appetite and all other diseases requiring a tonic.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1870-1885
maker
Dr. W. Sawens and Company
ID Number
MG.293320.1274
accession number
293320
catalog number
293320.1274

Hall Family Pills

The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:For sick headache, vertigo or dizziness, constipationCurrently not on view
Description
The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
For sick headache, vertigo or dizziness, constipation
Location
Currently not on view
Date made
after 1871
maker
F. J. Cheney & Company
ID Number
MG.M-10413.11
catalog number
M-10413.11
accession number
246707

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