Dewitt's Little Early Risers

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Associated Name: Tupper's Pharmacy
maker: E. C. DeWitt and Company

Description: The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging: A laxative and cathartic
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: ca 1915; ca 1920

ID Number: 1980.0698.037
accession number: 1980.0698
catalog number: 1980.0698.037

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

Physical Description: paper wrapper (overall packaging material); glass bottle (overall packaging material); aloin (drug active ingredients); podophylin (drug active ingredients)
Measurements: overall: 6.8 cm x 1.5 cm; 2 11/16 in x 9/16 in; overall: 2 5/8 in x 5/8 in; x 6.6675 cm x 1.5875 cm

place made: United States: Illinois, Chicago

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

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Subject: Laxatives

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DEWITT'S LITTLE EARLY RISERS

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