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Farris Healing Remedy, Good For Man or Beast

American History Museum

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    Object Details

    maker
    Old Kentucky Manufacturing Company
    Description
    The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
    For saddle and harness galls, barbed wire and other cuts and wounds, burns, scratches, cracked heels, calk sores; all hurts where the skin is broken; destroys screw worms
    Location
    Currently not on view
    Date made
    1906-1938
    ID Number
    MG.M-10426.10
    catalog number
    M-10426
    accession number
    246707
    Object Name
    Veterinary Product
    otc preparation
    veterinary product
    Other Terms
    Veterinary Product; otc preparation; Patent Medicines; Drugs; Liquid
    Physical Description
    alcohol 15% (drug active ingredients)
    Measurements
    box: 5 1/4 in x 1 5/8 in x 1 1/8 in; 13.335 cm x 4.1275 cm x 2.8575 cm
    bottle: 3 3/4 in x 1 3/8 in x 7/8 in; 9.525 cm x 3.4925 cm x 2.2225 cm
    Place Made
    United States: Kentucky, Paducah
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    Health & Medicine
    Balm of America
    Data Source
    National Museum of American History
    Subject
    Skin & Dermatology Drugs
    First Aid Products & Antiseptics
    Veterinary Products
    collection
    G.E. Damon Collection
    https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-639d-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
    nmah_715628
    NMAH
    FARRIS HEALING REMEDY, GOOD FOR MAN OR BEAST
    National Museum of American History
    CC0
    Metadata Usage
    CC0
    Link to Original Record
    https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-639d-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
    Record ID
    nmah_715628
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