B.B.B. Purgative Pills

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Associated Name: Tupper's Pharmacy
maker: Blood Balm Company

Description: The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging: A mild and pleasant purgative for constipation, biliousness, sick headache, torpid liver
Location: Currently not on view

Credit Line: Gift of Mary E. and Joseph F. Melfi, Jr., Tupper's Drug Store, Summerville, South Carolina

Date made: after 1912

ID Number: 1980.0698.036
accession number: 1980.0698
catalog number: 1980.0698.036

Object Name: otc preparation
Other Terms: Patent Medicines; Drugs; Non-Liquid

Physical Description: paper wrapper (overall packaging material); resin jalap (drug active ingredients); gamboge (drug active ingredients); calomel (drug active ingredients); colocynth (drug active ingredients); aloes (drug active ingredients); resin scammony (drug active ingredients); cardamom (drug active ingredients)
Measurements: overall: 7 cm x 2 cm; 2 3/4 in x 13/16 in; overall: 2 3/4 in x 1 in; x 6.985 cm x 2.54 cm

Place Made: United States: New York, New York City; United States: Missouri, Saint Louis

See more items in: Medicine and Science: Medicine; Health & Medicine; Balm of America

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Subject: Indigestion & Nausea Drugs; Laxatives; Blood & Liver Drugs

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B.B.B. PURGATIVE PILLS

National Museum of American History

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