Mothersill's Seasick Remedy

Mothersill's Seasick Remedy

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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
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Medicine and Science: Medicine
Reid Pharmacy, Clifton, Illinois
Health & Medicine
Balm of America
Data Source
National Museum of American History

Comments

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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

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"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

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