Wampole's Perfected and Palatable Preparation
Wampole's Perfected and Palatable Preparation
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Nutritional Product
- Cod Liver Oil
- Other Terms
- Cod Liver Oil; Patent Medicine; Nutritional Product; Pharmaceutical
- date made
- after 1930
- maker
- Henry K. Wampole and Company
- place made
- United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- Physical Description
- fluidextract of wild cherry (overall material)
- extract of malt (overall material)
- alcohol (overall material)
- red (overall color)
- black (overall color)
- cod livers (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 8 3/4 in x 3 3/8 in x 2 3/8 in; 22.225 cm x 8.5725 cm x 6.0325 cm
- ID Number
- 1993.0029.01
- catalog number
- 1993.0029.01
- accession number
- 1993.0029
- Credit Line
- Katherine P. and Philip D. Spiess II
- subject
- Tonics, Minerals & Vitamins
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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