Watkins Compound Mustard Ointment
Watkins Compound Mustard Ointment
- Description
- Aids in cough and colds in the chest, spasmodic croup, rheumatic pains, neuralgia, sore joints and muscles
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- otc preparation
- Other Terms
- Patent Medicines; Drugs; Non-Liquid
- date made
- after 1915
- maker
- J. R. Watkins Company
- place made
- Canada: British Columbia, Vancouver
- Physical Description
- glass (container material)
- metal (container material)
- paper (container material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2 3/4 in x 2 1/4 in x 2 1/4 in; 6.985 cm x 5.715 cm x 5.715 cm
- ID Number
- 1979.0798.149
- accession number
- 1979.0798
- catalog number
- 1979.0798.149
- Credit Line
- Gift of Gary P. and Sandra Baden
- subject
- Catarrh, Cough & Cold Drugs
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Balm of America
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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