Cascasweet
Cascasweet
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- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: A vegetable corrective for regulating the stomach and bowels of infants and children. For diarrhoea, Dysentary, Summer Complaints, Constipation, Worms, Convulsions, Teething, Wind Colic, Vomiting of Sour Curd, Mal-Assimilation of Food, Sour Stomach, Feverishness, and Want of Sleep.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- otc preparation
- Date made
- c. 1900
- maker
- E. C. DeWitt and Company
- place made
- United States: Illinois, Chicago
- Physical Description
- wormseed (drug active ingredients)
- cascara (drug active ingredients)
- rhubarb (drug active ingredients)
- pumpkin seed (drug active ingredients)
- alex. senna (drug active ingredients)
- rochelle salts (drug active ingredients)
- anise seed (drug active ingredients)
- bicarbonate soda (drug active ingredients)
- peppermint (drug active ingredients)
- wintergreen (drug active ingredients)
- horehound (drug active ingredients)
- aromatic sugar syrup (drug active ingredients)
- Measurements
- overall: 6 1/8 in x 2 1/4 in x 1 1/4 in; 15.5575 cm x 5.715 cm x 3.175 cm
- ID Number
- 2004.3012.02
- catalog number
- 2004.3012.02
- nonaccession number
- 2004.3012
- Credit Line
- Gift of Ben Posen
- subject
- Infant & Children's Products - Pediatrics
- Laxatives
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Balm of America
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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