Object Details
maker
Thompson Medical Company
Description
The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
A most excellent combination of vegetable medicines for scrofula, erysipelas, syphilis, salt rheum, pimples, boils, and all impurities of the blood. As a spring medicine for removing biliousness, preventing and relieving constipation, in conjunction with Thompson's Dandelion and Mandrake Pills, it will be found invaluable, increasing the appetite and strengthening the system. In all skin diseases or eruptions it should be used with San Cura Ointment.
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. James Harvey Young
Date made
after 1906
ID Number
1989.0711.50
accession number
1989.0711
catalog number
1989.0711.50
Object Name
otc preparation
Physical Description
alcohol 25% (drug active ingredients)
Measurements
box: 8 1/2 in x 3 1/4 in x 2 in; 21.59 cm x 8.255 cm x 5.08 cm
bottle: 7 1/2 in x 2 7/8 in x 1 1/2 in; 19.05 cm x 7.3025 cm x 3.81 cm
Place Made
United States: Pennsylvania, Titusville
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Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Blood & Liver Drugs
Laxatives
Skin & Dermatology Drugs
STD Drugs
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_748939