Dr. J. Walker's California Vinegar Bitters
Dr. J. Walker's California Vinegar Bitters
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- The great blood purifier and life-giving principle. A remedy for dyspepsia, indigestion, rheumatism, diarrhea, consumption, catarrh, bronchitis, neuralgia, headache, boils and ulcers, sore eyes, dropsy, scald head, paralysis, erysipelas, scrofula, tetter, skin diseases, bilious, remittent and intermittent fevers. Pains in the back, shoulders, heart and chest, liver and kidney complaints, stomach ache, jaundice, gout and fits, dizziness, colds and coughs, croup, palpitations of the heart, lead colic, nausea, biliousness, dysentary, piles, etc. Pin, tape and other worms lurking in the system of so many thousands are effectually destroyed and removed. For female complaints, in young or old, married or single, at the dawn of womanhood or the turn of life, this tonic bitters has no equal. Aperient, diaphoretic and carminative, nutritious, laxative, diuretic, sedative, counter-irritant, sudorific, alterative, and anti-bilious.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- otc preparation
- date made
- after 1886
- maker
- R. H. McDonald Drug Company
- place made
- United States: California, San Francisco
- United States: New York, New York City
- Physical Description
- paper (container material)
- glass (container material)
- cardboard (container material)
- Measurements
- box: 9 1/2 in x 3 1/8 in x 3 1/8 in; 24.13 cm x 7.9375 cm x 7.9375 cm
- bottle: 8 1/4 in x 3 in; 20.955 cm x 7.62 cm
- ID Number
- 2008.0062.28
- accession number
- 2008.0062
- catalog number
- 2008.0062.28
- Credit Line
- Gift of Richard Holstein
- subject
- Women's Health Products
- Bitters
- Blood & Liver Drugs
- Indigestion & Nausea Drugs
- Pain & Neuralgia Drugs
- Skin & Dermatology Drugs
- Fever & Chill Drugs
- Catarrh, Cough & Cold Drugs
- Vermifuges & Parasiticides
- Women's Health
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Balm of America
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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