Dr. Pierce's Lotion Tablets
Dr. Pierce's Lotion Tablets
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- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- One of these lotion tablets crushed and dissolved in a pint of hot water makes a cleansing lotion or wash
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- otc preparation
- Other Terms
- ?; Patent Medicines; Drugs
- date made
- ca 1935
- collection
- Reid Drugstore
- maker
- World's Dispensary Medical Association
- place made
- United States: New York, Buffalo
- Canada: Ontarian, Fort Erie
- Physical Description
- powdered zinc sulphate (drug active ingredients)
- powdered soda bicarbonate (drug active ingredients)
- powdered soda biborate (drug active ingredients)
- powdered alum. (drug active ingredients)
- cardboard (container material)
- metal (container material)
- Measurements
- box: 2 5/8 in x 2 5/8 in x 3/4 in; 6.6675 cm x 6.6675 cm x 1.905 cm
- tin: 3/4 in x 2 1/2 in; 1.905 cm x 6.35 cm
- ID Number
- 1984.0351.043
- accession number
- 1984.0351
- catalog number
- 1984.0351.043
- Credit Line
- Gift of Blanche E. Reid
- subject
- Women's Health Products
- Women's Health
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Beauty and Hygiene Products: Cure-alls
- Beauty and Hygiene Products: Feminine Care
- Beauty and Health
- Balm of America
- Reid Pharmacy, Clifton, Illinois
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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