Object Details
- retailer
- Sherman Pharmacy
- distributor
- Vendol Company
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- Promotes bowel activity
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Alan & Elaine Levitt
- after 1924
- ID Number
- 1985.0460.108
- accession number
- 1985.0460
- catalog number
- 1985.0460.108
- Object Name
- otc preparation
- Object Type
- Drugs
- Physical Description
- alcohol,12 % (drug active ingredients)
- aloin (drug active ingredients)
- senna (drug active ingredients)
- poke root (drug active ingredients)
- licorice root (drug active ingredients)
- dandelion (drug active ingredients)
- black cohosh (drug active ingredients)
- anise seed (drug active ingredients)
- gentian root (drug active ingredients)
- may apple (drug active ingredients)
- yellow dock (drug active ingredients)
- queen's root (drug active ingredients)
- culver's root (drug active ingredients)
- soda bicarbonate (drug active ingredients)
- potassium bicarbonate (drug active ingredients)
- Measurements
- box: 7 1/4 in x 3 1/8 in x 1 5/8 in; 18.415 cm x 7.9375 cm x 4.1275 cm
- bottle: 6 1/4 in x 2 7/8 in x 1 3/8 in; 15.875 cm x 7.3025 cm x 3.4925 cm
- place made
- United States: Maryland, Baltimore
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Balm of America
- Sherman Pharmacy, Sherman, New York
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Laxatives
- Record ID
- nmah_209887
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a0-e3bf-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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