Bovinine Beef Food Tonic
Bovinine Beef Food Tonic
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- For use as a readily assimilable form of nourishment. Aids with anemia, convalescence from acute diseases, debility, diabetes, dysepsia, gastro-intestinal disorders, cholera infantum, lactation, mal-nutrition and marasmus, nervous exhaustian, old age and conditions of low vitality, rickets, typhoid and other fevers, and as a food tonic in wasting diseases.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- otc preparation
- nutritional product
- date made
- after 1906
- maker
- Bovinine Company
- place made
- United States: Illinois, Chicago
- maker headquarters
- United States: New York, New York
- Physical Description
- glass (container material)
- alcohol, 12% (product ingredient)
- nutritive constituents of the blood of beef (product ingredient)
- glycerine (product ingredient)
- sodium chloride (product ingredient)
- cork (container material)
- Measurements
- overall: 5 3/4 in x 2 1/8 in x 2 1/8 in; 14.605 cm x 5.3975 cm x 5.3975 cm
- ID Number
- 1981.0227.228
- accession number
- 1981.0227
- catalog number
- 1981.0227.228
- Credit Line
- Gift of Joseph F. and Rosemary L. Robrecht
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Antibody Initiative: Infectious Disease, Allergy, and Immunotherapy Collections
- Health & Medicine
- The Antibody Initiative
- Diabetes
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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