Hill's Cold Tablets
Hill's Cold Tablets
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- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: For relieving the pains and discomforts of headaches, neuralgia and muscular aches and pains caused by or associated with colds
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- otc preparation
- Other Terms
- Patent Medicines; Drugs; Non-Liquid
- Date made
- ca 1940
- maker
- Whitehall Pharmacal Company
- Place Made
- United States: New York, New York City
- Physical Description
- acetophenetidin, 3 grs. per tablet (drug active ingredients)
- podophyllin (drug active ingredients)
- cascara sagrada (drug active ingredients)
- aloin (drug active ingredients)
- Measurements
- overall:.8 cm x 5.6 cm x 4.6 cm; 5/16 in x 2 3/16 in x 1 13/16 in
- overall: 1 3/4 in x 2 1/4 in x 3/8 in; 4.445 cm x 5.715 cm x.9525 cm
- ID Number
- 1979.0798.409
- catalog number
- 1979.0798.409
- accession number
- 1979.0798
- Credit Line
- Gift of Gary P. and Sandra Baden
- subject
- Catarrh, Cough & Cold Drugs
- Pain & Neuralgia Drugs
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Balm of America
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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