Dr. John Bull's Celebrated Pills

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maker: A. C. Meyer and Company

Description: The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:; A laxative, purgative, tonic, alterative; stimulates liver and bowel functions; tones up the stomach, enriches the blood. For constipation, biliousness, sick headache, disordered sour stomach, torpid liver, loss of appetite, coated tongue, bad breath, dizziness, sallow skin, impure blood, poor blood, periodical complaints of females, and other functional stomach, liver, bowel disorders.
Location: Currently not on view

Date made: after 1906

ID Number: MG.M-10413.21
catalog number: M-10413.02
accession number: 246707

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

Measurements: overall: 5.6 cm x 2 cm; 2 3/16 in x 13/16 in; overall: 2 1/4 in x 1 in; x 5.715 cm x 2.54 cm

place made: United States: Maryland, Baltimore

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

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Subject: Indigestion & Nausea Drugs; Women's Health Products; Tonics, Minerals & Vitamins; Laxatives; Blood & Liver Drugs
collection: G.E. Damon Collection
Subject: Women's Health; Menstruation

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DR. JOHN BULL'S CELEBRATED PILLS

National Museum of American History

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