Object Details
- W. H. Comstock Company
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: Laxative. To assist man when he overindulges in eating or drinking, and through lack of proper exercise, by helping renew his interest in life.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Gary P. and Sandra Baden
- ca 1940
- ID Number
- 1979.0798.424
- accession number
- 1979.0798
- catalog number
- 1979.0798.424
- Object Name
- otc preparation
- Other Terms
- Patent Medicines; Non-Liquid
- Physical Description
- aloes (drug active ingredients)
- mandrake (drug active ingredients)
- gamboge (drug active ingredients)
- jalap (drug active ingredients)
- cayenne pepper (drug active ingredients)
- Measurements
- overall: 1/4 in x 1 7/8 in x 1 3/8 in; .635 cm x 4.7625 cm x 3.4925 cm
- Place Made
- United States: New York, Morristown
- Canada: Ontarian, Brockville
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Balm of America
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Indigestion & Nausea Drugs
- Tonics, Minerals & Vitamins
- Nerve & Brain Drugs
- Record ID
- nmah_719998
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-a38f-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
