Dr. James P. Campbell's Safe Arsenic Complexion Wafers
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Object Details
- Campbell, James P.
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- Freckles, moth, black-heads, pimples, vulgar redness, rough, yellow or "muddy" skins and other facial disfigurements are permanently removed and a deliciously clear complexion and "rounding up" of angular forms insured. Also an absolute specific in dyspepsia, habitual constipation, malaria, neuralgia, rheumatism, loss of appetite, lack luster eyes, low spirits, want of vitality, mal-assimilation of food, headache, hay fever, etc.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Richard Holstein
- ca 1890
- ID Number
- 2008.0062.04
- accession number
- 2008.0062
- catalog number
- 2008.0062.04
- Object Name
- otc preparation
- Physical Description
- paper (packaging material)
- arsenic (drug active ingredients)
- printed (overall; wrapper production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 3/4 in x 2 5/8 in x 7/8 in; 4.445 cm x 6.6675 cm x 2.2225 cm
- place made
- United States: New York, New York City
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Beauty and Health
- Balm of America
- Beauty and Hygiene Products: Skin
- National Museum of American History
- subject
- Skin & Dermatology Drugs
- Rheumatism & Arthritis Drugs
- Laxatives
- Record ID
- nmah_1339217
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ac-5ea5-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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