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- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: To be used only by or on the prescription of a physician.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- otc preparation
- Other Terms
- Patent Medicines; Drugs; Non-Liquid
- Date made
- ca 1940
- Associated Name
- Tupper's Pharmacy
- maker
- S. Pfeiffer Manufacturing Company
- place made
- United States: Missouri, St. Louis
- Physical Description
- cardboard box (overall material)
- apiol (green), oil of tansy (drug active ingredients)
- Measurements
- overall: 6.7 cm x 4.2 cm x 2 cm; 2 5/8 in x 1 5/8 in x 13/16 in
- overall: 1 5/8 in x 2 5/8 in x 3/4 in; 4.1275 cm x 6.6675 cm x 1.905 cm
- ID Number
- 1980.0698.033
- accession number
- 1980.0698
- catalog number
- 1980.0698.033
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mary E. and Joseph F. Melfi, Jr., Tupper's Drug Store, Summerville, South Carolina
- subject
- STD Drugs
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Balm of America
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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