DeWitt's Throat Lozenges
Object Details
- collection
- Reid Drugstore
- E. C. DeWitt and Company
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- Valuable for hoarseness, tickling sensation of the throat, and coughing, inflamed or irritated conditions of the mucous membranes of the throat resulting from colds, coughs, or sore throat
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Blanche E. Reid
- ca 1940
- ID Number
- 1984.0351.006
- accession number
- 1984.0351
- catalog number
- 1984.0351.006
- Object Name
- otc preparation
- Other Terms
- ?; Patent Medicines; Drugs
- Physical Description
- chloroform, not more than 1/4 mm per lozenge (drug active ingredients)
- benzocaine U.S.P. (drug active ingredients)
- metal (container material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2 5/8 in x 3 1/4 in x 1/2 in; 6.6675 cm x 8.255 cm x 1.27 cm
- place made
- United States: New York, New York City
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Balm of America
- Reid Pharmacy, Clifton, Illinois
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Catarrh, Cough & Cold Drugs
- Record ID
- nmah_737707
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-e09a-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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