Bosak's Horke Vino
Bosak's Horke Vino
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- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: A valuable aid in dyspepsia, constipation, nervousness, general debility, and in other derangements of the digestive organs
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- otc preparation
- maker
- Bosak Manufacturing Company
- Place Made
- United States: Pennsylvania, Scranton
- Physical Description
- alcohol 18-20% (drug active ingredients)
- Measurements
- overall: 9 1/8 in x 3 in; 23.1775 cm x 7.62 cm
- ID Number
- 1979.0798.129
- accession number
- 1979.0798
- catalog number
- 1979.0798.129
- Credit Line
- Gift of Gary P. and Sandra Baden
- subject
- Indigestion & Nausea Drugs
- Laxatives
- Nerve & Brain Drugs
- Foreign & Imported Products
- Prohibition
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Balm of America
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Comments
"This product was manufactured by my great-great grandfather, Michael Bosak, the "Bishop of Scranton. " How wonderful to see it at the Smithsonian! Information about his life and works is available through the Michael Bosak Society: http://www.bosak.sk/en/index.html.Na zdravie!Doug LynottKensington, MD"
Doug
Fri, 2013-07-19 10:39
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