Eureka Headache Powder

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maker: Eureka Headache Powder Company

Description: The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: prompt relief for sick and nervous headache and a soothing anodyne for many kinds of pain; Directions: Take a powder on the tongue, or in a spoonful of milk or coffee, repeat the dose ONCE after 20 minutes; Children, one-third to one-half pwder.; It contains no pium or other narcotic, and leaves no unpleasant after-effect. No habit can be established by its use.
Location: Currently not on view

Credit Line: Gift of Mario Cassinelli, Jr.

Date made: ca 1908

ID Number: 1984.0782.059
accession number: 1984.0782
catalog number: 1984.0782.059

Object Name: otc preparation
Object Type: Drugs

Physical Description: paper (packaging material); acetanilide, 250 grains per ounce (drug active ingredients)
Measurements: overall: 1.9 cm x 5.9 cm x 3.3 cm; 3/4 in x 2 5/16 in x 1 5/16 in; overall: 1 3/8 in x 2 3/8 in x 3/4 in; 3.4925 cm x 6.0325 cm x 1.905 cm

place made: United States: New Hampshire, Concord

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

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Subject: Pain & Neuralgia Drugs

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nmah_209282

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EUREKA HEADACHE POWDER

National Museum of American History

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Record ID: nmah_209282