Dr. King's Pills

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Object Details

maker: H. E. Bucklen & Co.

Description: The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging: For temporary constipation and biliousness
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 1930

ID Number: 1980.0698.056
accession number: 1980.0698
catalog number: 1980.0698.056

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

Physical Description: cardboard box (overall packaging material); glass bottle (overall packaging material); cascara (drug active ingredients); podophyllin (drug active ingredients); aloin (drug active ingredients); strychnine sulphate (drug active ingredients); capsicum (drug active ingredients)
Measurements: overall: 1 1/8 in x 3 1/8 in x 1 1/8 in; 2.8575 cm x 7.9375 cm x 2.8575 cm; bottle: 1 in x 2 3/4 in x 1 in; 2.54 cm 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

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DR. KING'S PILLS

National Museum of American History

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Record ID: nmah_715824