Mothersill's Seasick Remedy
Mothersill's Seasick Remedy
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- Relieve as well as prevent seasickness, trainsickness, nausea or headaches caused by motion, climbing, etc.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1920
- collection
- Reid Drugstore
- maker
- Mothersill Remedy Company, Ltd.
- place made
- Canada: Ontario, Montreal
- United Kingdom: England, London
- Physical Description
- cardboard (container material)
- wax paper (container material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 1/4 in x 2 1/8 in x 5/8 in; 3.175 cm x 5.3975 cm x 1.5875 cm
- ID Number
- 1984.0351.153
- accession number
- 1984.0351
- catalog number
- 1984.0351.153
- Credit Line
- Gift of Blanche E. Reid
- subject
- Indigestion & Nausea Drugs
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Reid Pharmacy, Clifton, Illinois
- Health & Medicine
- Balm of America
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
Comments
Mentioned in "The Adventures of Augie March," by Saul Bellow, chapter 25, when Augie is sent to sea during WWII. "I came on deck from an all-night bout of seasickness - - the Mothersills pills, even, hadn't helped..."
Victor Houser
Thu, 2017-07-06 08:49
"As a cultural cross-reference, "What do you think about Mothersill's sea-sick pills? " is a lyric line in the song "Conga " from the Broadway show, "Wonderful Town, " which setting takes place in the mid 1930s in New York City."
Kim Goldsworthy
Tue, 2016-08-23 20:46
Kay Lutz
Fri, 2019-04-05 09:14