Dr. Flint's Quaker Bitters
Dr. Flint's Quaker Bitters
Previous
Next
Usage conditions apply
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
- A stomach tonic. For nervousness, catarrh of the head and stomach, scrofulous humor, canker, pimples and humors on the face, summer complaints, female weaknesses. Restores the appetite, purifies the blood. For dyspepsia, constipation, sick headache, dizziness, low spirits caused by disordered stomach, rheumatism, neuralgia, kidney and liver complaints, bilious attacks, piles, malaria, torpidity of the system, languor, general debility, fever and ague.
- Object Name
- otc preparation
- Other Terms
- Patent Medicines; Drugs; Liquid
- date made
- 1885-1908
- maker
- Quaker Bitters Company
- place made
- United States: Rhode Island, Providence
- Physical Description
- alcohol 22.5 % (drug active ingredients)
- red clover blossoms (drug active ingredients)
- triticum repens (witch grass) (drug active ingredients)
- rock rose (drug active ingredients)
- yellow dock (drug active ingredients)
- sarsaparilla (drug active ingredients)
- dandelion (drug active ingredients)
- gentian (drug active ingredients)
- juniper (drug active ingredients)
- wild cherry (drug active ingredients)
- Measurements
- box: 9 1/2 in x 3 1/4 in x 2 1/2 in; 24.13 cm x 8.255 cm x 6.35 cm
- bottle: 9 1/8 in x 3 1/8 in x 2 1/8 in; 23.1775 cm x 7.9375 cm x 5.3975 cm
- ID Number
- MG.M-12151.01
- catalog number
- M-12151.01
- accession number
- 271464
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Edward Mogull
- subject
- Blood & Liver Drugs
- Fever & Chill Drugs
- Nerve & Brain Drugs
- Skin & Dermatology Drugs
- Women's Health Products
- Rheumatism & Arthritis Drugs
- Pain & Neuralgia Drugs
- Kidney & Urinary Drugs
- Bitters
- Indigestion & Nausea Drugs
- Women's Health
- Laxatives
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- American Enterprise
- Balm of America
- Exhibition
- American Enterprise
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
Nominate this object for photography.
Our collection database is a work in progress. We may update this record based on further research and review. Learn more about our approach to sharing our collection online.
If you would like to know how you can use content on this page, see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use. If you need to request an image for publication or other use, please visit Rights and Reproductions.
Note: Comment submission is temporarily unavailable while we make improvements to the site. We apologize for the interruption. If you have a question relating to the museum's collections, please first check our Collections FAQ. If you require a personal response, please use our Contact page.
