Object Details
- Nyal Company
- Description
- Orange and white cardboard box with black print. Box contains orange, white and black ointment tin. Price 50 cents. Printed on front of box: "A cooling and soothing skin application." Printed on back: "This package adopted 1916."
- Indications or use as described on packaging:
- A treatment for eczema, ringworm, barbaer's itch, psoriasis and similar disfiguring eruptions of the skin.
- Directions: Apply night and morning with the finger, or on soft linen or cotton cloth. Change it as occasion requires.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Gary P. and Sandra Baden
- ID Number
- 1979.0798.078
- accession number
- 1979.0798
- catalog number
- 1979.0798.078
- Object Name
- otc preparation
- Other Terms
- Patent Medicines; Drugs; Non-Liquid
- Physical Description
- cardboard; paper (packaging (box/insert) material)
- metal (container material)
- zinc oxide; resorcin; sulphur; calamine; carbolic acid; oil wintergreen, synthetic; oil cassia (product active ingredients)
- Measurements
- box: 1 in x 2 3/4 in x 2 1/2 in; 2.54 cm x 6.985 cm x 6.35 cm
- tin: 7/8 in x 2 3/8 in; 2.2225 cm x 6.0325 cm
- place made
- United States: Michigan, Detroit
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Balm of America
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_716563
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-2352-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
