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Dr. John Bull's Celebrated Pills

Dr. John Bull's Celebrated Pills

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Description
The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
A laxative, purgative, tonic, alterative; stimulates liver and bowel functions; tones up the stomach, enriches the blood. For constipation, biliousness, sick headache, disordered sour stomach, torpid liver, loss of appetite, coated tongue, bad breath, dizziness, sallow skin, impure blood, poor blood, periodical complaints of females, and other functional stomach, liver, bowel disorders.
Location
Currently not on view
Object Name
otc preparation
Other Terms
Patent Medicines; Drugs; Non-Liquid
Date made
after 1906
maker
A. C. Meyer and Company
place made
United States: Maryland, Baltimore
Measurements
overall: 5.6 cm x 2 cm; 2 3/16 in x 13/16 in
overall: 2 1/4 in x 1 in; x 5.715 cm x 2.54 cm
ID Number
MG.M-10413.21
catalog number
M-10413.02
accession number
246707
subject
Indigestion & Nausea Drugs
Women's Health Products
Tonics, Minerals & Vitamins
Laxatives
Blood & Liver Drugs
G.E. Damon Collection
Women's Health
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Medicine and Science: Medicine
Health & Medicine
Balm of America
Data Source
National Museum of American History
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