Bull's Cough Syrup
Bull's Cough Syrup
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- Coughs, colds, hoarseness, bronchitis, grippe cough, croup, whooping cough and measles cough; also to relieve cough of asthmatic and consumptive patients in incipient or advanced stages of their disease
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- otc preparation
- Bottle, Medicine
- Other Terms
- Drugs
- Date made
- after 1906
- maker
- A. C. Meyer and Company
- place made
- United States: Maryland, Baltimore
- Physical Description
- alcohol (drug active ingredients)
- paper (packaging material)
- glass (container material)
- Measurements
- bottle in box: 6 3/8 in x 2 1/4 in x 1.375 cm; 16.1925 cm x 5.715 cm x 17/32 in
- paper-wrapped pill: 1/2 in x 1 in x 1/8 in; 1.27 cm x 2.54 cm x.3175 cm
- ID Number
- MG.293320.1189
- catalog number
- 293320.1189
- accession number
- 293320
- subject
- Catarrh, Cough & Cold Drugs
- Respiratory & Asthma Drugs
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Agriculture and Natural Resources
- Health & Medicine
- Balm of America
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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