Hostetter's Celebrated Stomachic Bitters

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maker: Hostetter Company

Description: The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:; A good general tonic. Beneficial in convalescence. An excellent stimulant to the appetite. A carminative; mildly laxative; beneficial in colic due to gas.
Location: Currently not on view

Credit Line: Gift of Mr. James Harvey Young

Date made: after 1889; after 1915

ID Number: 1989.0711.22
accession number: 1989.0711
catalog number: 1989.0711.22

Object Name: otc preparation

Physical Description: alcohol 25% (drug active ingredients)
Measurements: overall: 8 3/4 in x 2 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in; 22.225 cm x 6.35 cm x 6.35 cm

Place Made: United States: Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh

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

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Subject: Bitters; Indigestion & Nausea Drugs; Laxatives; Tonics, Minerals & Vitamins

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HOSTETTER'S CELEBRATED STOMACHIC BITTERS

National Museum of American History

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