NR Candy Coated All Vegetable Laxative
NR Candy Coated All Vegetable Laxative
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- For conditions caused by or associated with constipation
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- otc preparation
- Other Terms
- ?; Patent Medicines; Drugs
- date made
- after 1938
- collection
- Reid Drugstore
- maker
- Lewis-Howe Company
- place made
- United States: Missouri, St. Louis
- Physical Description
- aloes (drug active ingredients)
- cascara sagrada (drug active ingredients)
- apocynum (drug active ingredients)
- frangula (drug active ingredients)
- burdock (drug active ingredients)
- dandelion (drug active ingredients)
- sarsaparilla (drug active ingredients)
- mandrake (drug active ingredients)
- rhubarb (drug active ingredients)
- juniper berries (drug active ingredients)
- prickly ash bark (drug active ingredients)
- metal (container material)
- cellophane (container material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 3/8 in x 1 3/4 in x 1/2 in; 3.4925 cm x 4.445 cm x 1.27 cm
- ID Number
- 1984.0351.120
- accession number
- 1984.0351
- catalog number
- 1984.0351.120
- Credit Line
- Gift of Blanche E. Reid
- subject
- Laxatives
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Balm of America
- Reid Pharmacy, Clifton, Illinois
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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