Wood's Female Medicine
Object Details
- Wood Drug Company
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: Female diseases; where a sexual tonic is necessary to bring about a regular and perfect function to the female organization, increase flow where it is scanty, improve appetite and digestion, suppressed menstruation that may be due to cold, debility of the blood, or ovaries. Cures prolapsus or falling of the womb, leucorrhoea or whites, ulcerations and kindred affections at the dreaded period of cessation, or change of life, which is often characterized by headache, fainting spells, general debility, spasmodic affections, hypochondria, melancholy, pains in the loins or limbs, apparent letting down of the whole system, hysteria, etc. Anemia
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ca 1890
- ID Number
- 2012.0165.021
- catalog number
- 2012.0165.021
- accession number
- 2012.0165
- Object Name
- otc preparation
- Physical Description
- paper (container material)
- Measurements
- overall: 9 1/2 in x 3 1/8 in x 1 7/8 in; 24.13 cm x 7.9375 cm x 4.7625 cm
- place made
- United States: Virginia, Bristol
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Balm of America
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Women's Health
- Women's Health Products
- Menopause
- Menstruation
- Record ID
- nmah_1425447
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ae-0acd-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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