Hadacol
Hadacol
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- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
- A dietary supplement for increasing appetite and promoting proper growth, especially for growing children. Promotes normal regularity, improves appetite, give you a new zest for life.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- nutritional supplement
- otc preparation
- Date made
- ca 1955
- maker
- Hadacol, Incorporated
- place made
- United States: Illinois, Chicago
- Physical Description
- manganese (drug active ingredients)
- niacinamide (drug active ingredients)
- d-panthenol (drug active ingredients)
- biotin (drug active ingredients)
- inositol (drug active ingredients)
- choline dihydrogen citrate (drug active ingredients)
- bioflavonoid (drug active ingredients)
- iron (drug active ingredients)
- calcium (drug active ingredients)
- phosphorus (drug active ingredients)
- potassium iodide (drug active ingredients)
- cobalt sulfate (drug active ingredients)
- copper sulfate (drug active ingredients)
- alcohol 11% (drug active ingredients)
- honey (drug active ingredients)
- vitamin b1 (drug active ingredients)
- vitamin b2 (drug active ingredients)
- vitamin b6 (drug active ingredients)
- vitamin b12 (drug active ingredients)
- magnesium sulfate (drug active ingredients)
- zinc sulfate (drug active ingredients)
- Measurements
- box: 8 in x 3 1/8 in x 1 3/8 in; 20.32 cm x 7.9375 cm x 3.4925 cm
- bottle: 7 5/8 in x 2 3/4 in x 1 3/8 in; 19.3675 cm x 6.985 cm x 3.4925 cm
- ID Number
- 1989.0711.77
- catalog number
- 1989.0711.77
- accession number
- 1989.0711
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. James Harvey Young
- subject
- Tonics, Minerals & Vitamins
- Laxatives
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Balm of America
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Comments
"this product wasfirst made in abbeville, la during the depression by dudley leblanc - he and my mother went to school togeher - he was a local salesman and promoter and rode hadacol (when spoken with a cajun french accent "i had a cold " came out hadaol) to national fame and fortune in the fifties.hadacol permeated all levels of life in louisiana and the sw and se regions of the us - i.e. joke "tenom what you doing now? " "man i use to be ignornt and didn't know nothing, but now after only 4 bottles of hadacol i'm teaching school! " "
hugh
Thu, 2013-07-18 15:03
CHERYL feathers
Tue, 2019-11-12 10:13