Object Details
maker
Grove Laboratories
Description
Orange cardboard box with trademark image of a "laughing baby" on the front. Box contains a glass bottle with orange metal cap and paper labels on the front and back. Bottle full of dark liquid. Price 50 cents. 4 fluid ounces.
The indications as they appear on the packaging: For relief of malaria and resulting chills and fever.
Printed on the side of the box and on the bottle's back label: "IMPORTANT NOTICE! The tasteless ingredients of GROVE'S CHILL TONIC have "gone to war". Do not be alarmed therefore if you detect a slight bitterness." "The medicine now being used (Totaquine) ia an effective anti-malarial recommended by the U. S. Government, and consits of a mixture of quinine, quinidine, cinchonine, cinchonidine and other cinchona extractives as described in the United States Pharmacopoeia."
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1941 - 1945
ID Number
2012.0165.011
catalog number
2012.0165.011
accession number
2012.0165
Object Name
otc preparation
Physical Description
totaquine (drug active ingredients)
reduced iron (drug active ingredients)
lemon flavor simple syrup (drug active ingredients)
cardboard (container material)
glass (container material)
paper (container material)
metal (container material)
Measurements
box: 6 in x 2 7/8 in x 1 5/8 in; 15.24 cm x 7.3025 cm x 4.1275 cm
bottle: 5 3/4 in x 2 3/8 in x 1 3/8 in; 14.605 cm x 6.0325 cm x 3.4925 cm
place made
United States: Missouri, Saint Louis
Associated Place
United States: Missouri, Saint Louis
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Data Source
National Museum of American History
related event
World War II
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_1425400