Dr. James P. Campbell's Safe Arsenic Complexion Wafers

Object Details

Campbell, James P.

Description: Blue and white paper wrapped box. Box is sealed. Box contains 120 wafers (tablets); price one dollar. Dr. Campbell's signature (James P. Campbell, M.D.) serves as trademark. mark on side of box: GUARANTEED ABSOLUTELY SAFE AND / HARMLESS TO ANYBODY. / N. Y. C. R. No. 21. [ "N. Y. C. R. No. 21" refers to the New York City Department of Health regulations for the registration of Proprietary Medicines as amended Dec. 21, 1915.]; The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: Freckles, moth, black-heads, pimples, vulgar redness, rough, yellow or "muddy" skins and other facial disfigurements are permanently removed and a deliciously clear complexion and "rounding up" of angular forms insured. Also an absolute specific in dyspepsia, habitual constipation, malaria, neuralgia, rheumatism, loss of appetite, lack luster eyes, low spirits, want of vitality, mal-assimilation of food, headache, hay fever, etc. [1887]
Location: Currently not on view

ca 1916 to 1928

Physical Description: paper (packaging material); arsenic (drug active ingredients); printed (overall; wrapper production method/technique)
Measurements: overall: 1 3/4 in x 2 5/8 in x 7/8 in; 4.445 cm x 6.6675 cm x 2.2225 cm

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