Bliss Native Oil - with Sample of Bliss Native Herbs for Constipation
Bliss Native Oil - with Sample of Bliss Native Herbs for Constipation
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Usage conditions apply
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- Used externally for pains caused by muscular rheumatism, lumbago, sprains, soreness of muscles, stiff neck, chilblains, frost-bites, poisonous stings. If freely applied when fever blisters and pimples are forming, it will cause the swelling to quickly disappear.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- otc preparation
- date made
- after 1906
- maker
- Alonzo O. Bliss Medical Company
- place made
- United States: District of Columbia, Washington
- United States: Missouri, Kansas City
- Canada: Quebec, Montreal
- Physical Description
- glass (container material)
- paper (container material)
- wood (container material)
- alcohol, 75% (drug active ingredients)
- cardboard (packaging material)
- Measurements
- box: 5 5/8 in x 2 1/8 in x 1 in; 14.2875 cm x 5.3975 cm x 2.54 cm
- bottle: 4 7/8 in x 1 3/4 in x 7/8 in; 12.3825 cm x 4.445 cm x 2.2225 cm
- wood vial: 2 in x 5/8 in x 5/8 in; 5.08 cm x 1.5875 cm x 1.5875 cm
- ID Number
- 2008.0062.14
- accession number
- 2008.0062
- catalog number
- 2008.0062.14
- Credit Line
- Gift of Richard Holstein
- subject
- Rubs, Liniments & Ointments
- Pain & Neuralgia Drugs
- Rheumatism & Arthritis Drugs
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Beauty and Hygiene Products: Cure-alls
- Beauty and Health
- Balm of America
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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