The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: A soothing dressing for Burns, Minor Cuts, Skin Irritations, Sunburn, Frost Bites, Chafing, and a valuable aid in the Nursery. A relief for Nasal and Throat Irritations Due to Colds.
This object is one of over 700 medically related objects used on the set of the television show M*A*S*H. Most of these items are authentic medical instruments, supplies, and equipment from the 1950s.
M*A*S*H was an award-winning television show based on the bestselling novel and Oscar winning motion picture film of the same title. It portrayed the lives of doctors and nurses assigned to a fictitious medical unit, the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, based in Uijeongbu, Korea during the 1950-1953 war. The program was initially broadcast from September 17, 1972 to February 28, 1983.
After the show ended in 1983, Twentieth Century Fox donated material from the two major sets, the “Swamp” and the “Operating Theater,” to the museum, along with scripts, photographs, and interviews with individuals who served in MASH units in Korea and Vietnam. See accessions 1983.0095, 1985.0335, 1988.0748, 1988.3163, and archival collection NMAH.AC.0117, for further MASH material.
The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: Coughs due to minor throat and bronchial irritation due to common cold or inhaled irritants.
The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
Specially cures coughs, colds, excessive spittum, asthma, etc. It is manufactured from Chinese herbs and is suitable for the use of all people. When taken regularly it promotes Radiant Health.
The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: Since 1870, Pine Bros. Cough Drops Have Been Used by Millions for Effective Relief of Coughs due to Colds and For Speedy Relief of Dry Throat, Hoarseness and Minor Throat Irritations
The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: Decongestant. For the temporary relief of nasal congestion due to colds, sinuitis, hay fever or other upper respiratory allergies.
The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: Colic, cholera morbus, cramps and pain in the stomach, cholera, coughs, colds, croup, sore throat, dyspepsia, diarrhea, fever and ague, kidney difficulty, pleurisy, acid stomach, indigestion, headache, sea sickness, rheumatism, neuralgia, sprains, lameness, sciatica, toothache, earache, catarrh, frost bites.
The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
For languid, listless, lifeless feeling. As a general constitutional remedy, and as a blood purifying tonic. For inflammation of the mucous membranes of the throat, lungs or bronchial tubes, and for coughs and colds. For neuralgia or acute pains.
The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
Coughs, colds, hoarseness, bronchitis, grippe cough, croup, whooping cough and measles cough; also to relieve cough of asthmatic and consumptive patients in incipient or advanced stages of their disease
The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: For consumption, coughs, colds and all diseases of the throat, chest and lungs.
The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
By taking the contents of this small bottle, you will readily perceive the remarkable curative qualities of this great New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs, Colds, and all Diseases of the Throat, Chest and Lungs, which will convince you of its wonderful merits, and show you what can be done by a regular one dollar size bottle. Give it a trial. Dose for adults one teaspoonful every three hours.
Proprietary (patent) medicine makers employed a wide array of advertising and marketing techniques to sell their products. The free sample, or trial size, was one of these. Dr. King's New Discovery, developed by Dr. Z. L. King of Elkhart, Indianna, was purchased by Herbert E. Bucklen around 1878. Bucklen spent lavishly on advertising which brought national recognition to his New Discovery and other medicines.
The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
For the cure of all affections of the lungs, throat and chest, such as consumption, colds, coughs, asthma, bronchitis, croup, whooping cough, pain or oppression of the chest, hoarseness, spitting of blood and all pulmonary diseases
The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: Common malaria; chills; malarial fever (to be used as a general tonic); colds