The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer, or as found in contemporary medical literature, are:
For use as a tonic, alterative, and laxative. Used in anemia and chlorosis [an iron-deficiency anemia of young women]. [Lilly's Hand Book of Pharmacy and Therapeutics, 6th revision, 1919]
The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer, or as found in contemporary medical literature, are:
For use as a tonic and cathartic. It is recommended in the treatment of habitual constipation, especially in those cases in which atony [flaccidity] of the stomach and bowels is a feature.
The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
For temporary constipation and for activating sluggish bowels. An aid toward the alleviation of the discomforts of simple digestive disturbances when due to temporary constipation, and for the relief of headaches and other disorders resulting from this condition.
The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer, or as found in contemporary medical literature, are:
The action and uses of nux vomica are identical in kind with those of strychnine [used for paralysis, as an ecbolic [labor inducer], prolapsus of the rectum, retention or incontinence of urine, sexual impotence, abortion, postpartum hemorrhage, saccharine diabetes, night-sweats in phthisis]. It may be mentioned in this place, however, that the action of nux vomica is too variable to render it eligible as a medicine. [The National Dispensatory, 5th Edition, 1896]
Glass bottle with "PATD SEPT 23D, 1862, W. N. WALTON" embossed on the bottom.
Ref: William N. Walton, “Improvement in Attaching Labels to Bottles,” U.S. Patent 36,542 (Sept. 23, 1862).
Ref: George Griffenhagen and Mary Bogard, History of Drug Containers and Their Labels (Madison, Wi., 1999), pp. 63-65.
The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer, or as found in contemporary medical literature, are:
For use as a mild cathartic. From its mildness it is also especially adapted to diseases attended with irritation or inflammation of the bowels, as colic, diarrhoea, dysentery, and enteritis. [The Dispensatory of the United States of America, 1st Edition, 1933]
The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer, or as found in contemporary medical literature, are:
For use as a laxative, cathartic, hepatic and intestinal tonic. It relieves constipation by restoring tonicity to the bowels. [Physicians' Manual of Therapeutics: Referring especially to the products of the pharmaceutical and biological laboratories of Parke, Davis & Company, 1901]
The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer, or as found in contemporary medical literature, are:
One of sixty-seven (67) specimens of crude drugs and pharmaceutical preparations of aloes, camphor, ginger, and rhubarb donated by Parke, Davis and Company in 1928 for the pharmacy exhibits. The museum curator solicited these preparations for an exhibit of medicines “telling the story of the cultivation, collection, marketing, and medicinal use of well-known and extensively used drugs.” The official drugs were exhibited along with examples of the crude botanical drug and photographs of the cultivation and processing of aloes, camphor, ginger, and rhubarb. The curator requested that the specimens be supplied in the company’s regular stock containers whenever possible rather than using the uniform display bottles often employed in the pharmacy exhibits. "The idea is to give the visiting public information concerning the numerous official medicines which contain the drugs in question. For this purpose, I think a variety in the style of the containers is desirable."
For use as a laxative but is rarely employed today. It has gained some reputation as an abortifacient and therefore must be sold with caution. [Remington's Practice of Pharmacy, Seventh Edition, 1926]