Object Details
maker
Rogers, Fuller and Company
A. B. Wilton
Description
The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
Cures catarrh, headache, and all nervous pains.
This Medicine is taken through a Patent Inhaling Tube, or from the Hand.
For Catarrh, Fill the tube with the liquid and insert the bulb in one nostril, and close the other nostril with the finger, and then snuff as quickly as possible that the liquid may be thrown up high into the head. Repeat the dose til it passes over into the throat. Do this on retiring for the night, and when you get up in the morning. [. . . ]
For Headache, and all Nervous Pain in the Head, Fill the tube as before, and snuff the liquid up the nostrils as high as possible, repeating the dose every few minutes until all pain is removed.
Location
Currently not on view
Date made
ca 1880
ID Number
MG.293320.1267
accession number
293320
catalog number
293320.1267
Object Name
otc preparation
Bottle, Medicine
Other Terms
Drugs
Measurements
overall: 6 1/8 in x 2 3/8 in; 15.5575 cm x 6.0325 cm
place made
United States: Massachusetts, Boston
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Balm of America
Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Catarrh, Cough & Cold Drugs
Pain & Neuralgia Drugs
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_1298561