666 Cold Preparation
Object Details
- retailer
- Sherman Pharmacy
- Monticello Drug Company
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- Aids in relieving distress and discomforts of colds by its fourfold action -- as an analgesic, as an antipyretic, as an expectorant, and as a laxative. For relief of coughs, simple headaches and neuralgia, muscular aches, pains, and reducing fever due to colds.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Alan & Elaine Levitt
- ca 1947
- ID Number
- 1985.0460.097
- accession number
- 1985.0460
- catalog number
- 1985.0460.097
- Object Name
- otc preparation
- Object Type
- Drugs
- Physical Description
- cardboard (box material)
- glass (bottle material)
- plastic (cap material)
- antipyrine, 10 grains/oz (drug active ingredients)
- ammonium chloride (drug active ingredients)
- magnesium sulphate (Epsom salt) (drug active ingredients)
- citric acid (drug active ingredients)
- Measurements
- box: 6 5/8 in x 2 3/8 in x 1 5/8 in; 16.8275 cm x 6.0325 cm x 4.1275 cm
- bottle: 6 1/4 in x 2 1/4 in x 1 1/2 in; 15.875 cm x 5.715 cm x 3.81 cm
- place made
- United States: Florida, Jacksonville
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Balm of America
- Sherman Pharmacy, Sherman, New York
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Catarrh, Cough & Cold Drugs
- Pain & Neuralgia Drugs
- Laxatives
- Record ID
- nmah_209858
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a0-ddf6-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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