Wilton's Catarrh Cure
Object Details
- Rogers, Fuller and Company
- A. B. Wilton
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- Cures catarrh, headache, and all nervous pains.
- This Medicine is taken through a Patent Inhaling Tube, or from the Hand.
- For Catarrh, Fill the tube with the liquid and insert the bulb in one nostril, and close the other nostril with the finger, and then snuff as quickly as possible that the liquid may be thrown up high into the head. Repeat the dose til it passes over into the throat. Do this on retiring for the night, and when you get up in the morning. [. . . ]
- For Headache, and all Nervous Pain in the Head, Fill the tube as before, and snuff the liquid up the nostrils as high as possible, repeating the dose every few minutes until all pain is removed.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ca 1880
- ID Number
- MG.293320.1267
- accession number
- 293320
- catalog number
- 293320.1267
- Object Name
- otc preparation
- Bottle, Medicine
- Other Terms
- Drugs
- Measurements
- overall: 6 1/8 in x 2 3/8 in; 15.5575 cm x 6.0325 cm
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Boston
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Agriculture and Natural Resources
- Health & Medicine
- Balm of America
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Catarrh, Cough & Cold Drugs
- Pain & Neuralgia Drugs
- Record ID
- nmah_1298561
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-d9e1-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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