Pil. Lilly Aphrodisiaca

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Associated Name: Tupper's Pharmacy
maker: Eli Lilly and Company

Description: The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: As a nerve tonic, indicated in mental overwork, sexual debility, impotency. Beneficial in cases of nocturnal emission, the result of excesses, mental apathy or indifference, and in an enfeebled condition of the general system, with weakness or dull pain in the lumbosacral region. In diseases of the reproductive organs of the female, and especially of the uterus,... as a uterine tonic,... is of value in leucorrhea, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, to to remove tendency to miscarriage.
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.1890-1920s

ID Number: 1980.0698.026
accession number: 1980.0698
catalog number: 1980.0698.026

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

Physical Description: damiana (overall material); nux vomica (drug active ingredients); phosphorous (drug active ingredients); glass (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 3 7/8 in x 1 5/8 in x 1 in; 9.8425 cm x 4.1275 cm x 2.54 cm

place made: United States: Indiana, Indianapolis

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

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Subject: Aphrodisiacs & Potency Drugs; Medicine

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PIL. LILLY APHRODISIACA

National Museum of American History

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