Gold Medal Compound Pills
Gold Medal Compound Pills
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging: To aid in increasing haemoglobin of the blood by supplying iron in case of secondary anemia
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- otc preparation
- Date made
- after 1942
- maker
- Virginia Chemical Company
- Place Made
- United States: Missouri, Saint Louis
- Physical Description
- cardboard (container packaging material)
- iron sulphate (drug active ingredients)
- myrrh (drug active ingredients)
- oil of cajuput (drug active ingredients)
- oil of spearmint (drug active ingredients)
- Measurements
- overall: 8.8 cm x 7.2 cm x 1.5 cm; 3 7/16 in x 2 13/16 in x 9/16 in
- overall: 2 7/8 in x 3 1/2 in x 5/8 in; 7.3025 cm x 8.89 cm x 1.5875 cm
- ID Number
- 1980.0698.065
- accession number
- 1980.0698
- catalog number
- 1980.0698.065
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mary E. and Joseph F. Melfi, Jr., Tupper's Drug Store, Summerville, South Carolina
- subject
- Blood & Liver Drugs
- Tonics, Minerals & Vitamins
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Balm of America
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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