Dewitt's Vaporizing Balm
Dewitt's Vaporizing Balm
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Usage conditions apply
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: Externally: for superficial Burns and Cuts, non-venomous Insect Bites, Frose Bites, Sunburn and Wildburn;/ Internally: inhaled in the form of vapor that is soothing to nasal passages.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- otc preparation
- Other Terms
- Patent Medicines; Drugs; Non-Liquid
- maker
- E. C. DeWitt and Company
- Physical Description
- pine oil, eucalyptus oil, menthol, camphor, petrolatum, (drug active ingredients)
- cardboard (overall material)
- glass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 7 cm x 6 cm x 6 cm; 2 3/4 in x 2 3/8 in x 2 3/8 in
- box: 2 3/4 in x 2 3/8 in x 2 3/8 in; 6.985 cm x 6.0325 cm x 6.0325 cm
- jar: 2 3/8 in x 1 3/4 in; 6.0325 cm x 4.445 cm
- ID Number
- 1980.0698.079
- accession number
- 1980.0698
- catalog number
- 1980.0698.079
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mary E. and Joseph F. Melfi, Jr., Tupper's Drug Store, Summerville, South Carolina
- subject
- Rubs, Liniments & Ointments
- Respiratory & Asthma Drugs
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Balm of America
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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