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Bovinine Beef Food Tonic

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    Object Details

    maker

    Bovinine Company

    Description

    The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
    For use as a readily assimilable form of nourishment. Aids with anemia, convalescence from acute diseases, debility, diabetes, dysepsia, gastro-intestinal disorders, cholera infantum, lactation, mal-nutrition and marasmus, nervous exhaustian, old age and conditions of low vitality, rickets, typhoid and other fevers, and as a food tonic in wasting diseases.

    Location

    Currently not on view

    Credit Line

    Gift of Joseph F. and Rosemary L. Robrecht

    date made

    after 1906

    ID Number

    1981.0227.228

    accession number

    1981.0227

    catalog number

    1981.0227.228

    Object Name

    otc preparation
    nutritional product

    Other Terms

    Patent Medicines; Drugs; Liquid

    Physical Description

    glass (container material)
    alcohol, 12% (product ingredient)
    nutritive constituents of the blood of beef (product ingredient)
    glycerine (product ingredient)
    sodium chloride (product ingredient)
    cork (container material)

    Measurements

    overall: 5 3/4 in x 2 1/8 in x 2 1/8 in; 14.605 cm x 5.3975 cm x 5.3975 cm

    place made

    United States: Illinois, Chicago

    maker headquarters

    United States: New York, New York

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    Data Source

    National Museum of American History

    Metadata Usage

    CC0

    Link to Original Record

    https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-5a76-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

    Record ID

    nmah_720106

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