Blue Ridge Pure Castor Oil
Blue Ridge Pure Castor Oil
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- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer, or as found in contemporary medical literature, are:
- For use as a purgative [Remington's Practice of Pharmacy, Seventh Edition, 1926]
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- pharmaceutical
- otc preparation
- date made
- ca 1920
- maker
- Blue Ridge Chemical Corp'n.
- place made
- United States: Virginia, Rocky Mount
- Physical Description
- castor oil (drug active ingredients)
- glass (container material)
- cork (stopper material)
- paper (label material)
- wax (stopper material)
- Measurements
- overall: 6 3/8 in x 2 in x 1 in; 16.1925 cm x 5.08 cm x 2.54 cm
- ID Number
- 2004.3012.18
- nonaccession number
- 2004.3012
- catalog number
- 2004.3012.18
- Credit Line
- Gift of Ben Posen
- subject
- Laxatives
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Balm of America
- Botanical Medicine
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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