Medicone Dressing
Medicone Dressing
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: For painful wounds, burns, ulcers, and fissures
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- otc preparation
- Date made
- ca 1940
- maker
- Medicone Company
- Place Made
- United States: New York, New York City
- Physical Description
- benzocaine (drug active ingredients)
- cod-liver oil (drug active ingredients)
- hydroxyquinoline (drug active ingredients)
- zinc ox (drug active ingredients)
- petrolatum (drug active ingredients)
- Measurements
- overall: .9 cm x 4.3 cm; 3/8 in x 1 11/16 in
- overall: 3/8 in x 1 5/8 in; .9525 cm x 4.1275 cm
- ID Number
- 1979.0798.348
- accession number
- 1979.0798
- catalog number
- 1979.0798.348
- Credit Line
- Gift of Gary P. and Sandra Baden
- subject
- First Aid Products & Antiseptics
- Rubs, Liniments & Ointments
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Balm of America
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Delores Moulton
Thu, 2015-06-04 12:23