Dr. Flint's Quaker Bitters
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Object Details
- Quaker Bitters Company
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
- A stomach tonic. For nervousness, catarrh of the head and stomach, scrofulous humor, canker, pimples and humors on the face, summer complaints, female weaknesses. Restores the appetite, purifies the blood. For dyspepsia, constipation, sick headache, dizziness, low spirits caused by disordered stomach, rheumatism, neuralgia, kidney and liver complaints, bilious attacks, piles, malaria, torpidity of the system, languor, general debility, fever and ague.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Edward Mogull
- 1885-1908
- ID Number
- MG.M-12151.01
- catalog number
- M-12151.01
- accession number
- 271464
- Object Name
- otc preparation
- Other Terms
- Patent Medicines; Drugs; Liquid
- Physical Description
- alcohol 22.5 % (drug active ingredients)
- red clover blossoms (drug active ingredients)
- triticum repens (witch grass) (drug active ingredients)
- rock rose (drug active ingredients)
- yellow dock (drug active ingredients)
- sarsaparilla (drug active ingredients)
- dandelion (drug active ingredients)
- gentian (drug active ingredients)
- juniper (drug active ingredients)
- wild cherry (drug active ingredients)
- Measurements
- box: 9 1/2 in x 3 1/4 in x 2 1/2 in; 24.13 cm x 8.255 cm x 6.35 cm
- bottle: 9 1/8 in x 3 1/8 in x 2 1/8 in; 23.1775 cm x 7.9375 cm x 5.3975 cm
- place made
- United States: Rhode Island, Providence
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- American Enterprise
- Balm of America
- Exhibition
- American Enterprise
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of American History
- subject
- Blood & Liver Drugs
- Fever & Chill Drugs
- Nerve & Brain Drugs
- Skin & Dermatology Drugs
- Women's Health Products
- Rheumatism & Arthritis Drugs
- Pain & Neuralgia Drugs
- Kidney & Urinary Drugs
- Bitters
- Indigestion & Nausea Drugs
- Women's Health
- Laxatives
- Record ID
- nmah_714426
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a8-8a42-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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