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Munyon's Homeopathic Home Remedy Counter Display

National Museum of American History

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Munyon Home Remedy Company
The American Art Works
Description
The American Art Works of Coshocton, Ohio produced this Munyon Home Remedy Company counter display case during the early 20th century. The metal box features a photograph of James Munyon holding his right index finger aloft and proclaiming in a banner below: “I would rather preserve the health of the nation than be its ruler.” Decorative panels on the sides of the box read: “The World’s best known remedies for over a quarter of a century” and “A separate Munyon Remedy for each disease.”
James M. Munyon (1848 - 1918) established his homeopathic medicine company in the early 1890s. Remedies included in this display box: Constipation Pellets, Morrowbone Nux Iron, Hay Fever Remedy, Bladder Remedy, Blood Remedy, Catarrh Remedy, Cold and Cough Remedy, Female Remedy, General Debility Remedy, Grippe Remedy, Heart Remedy, Kidney Remedy, Liver Remedy, Nerve Remedy, Neuralgia Remedy, Asthma Pellets, Colic and Crying Baby Remedy, Constipation Ointment, Cough Remedy, Croup Remedy, Fever Remedy, Headache Remedy, Laxative Paw-Paw Pills, Leucorrhea Tablets, Malaria and Chills and Fever Remedy, Measles Remedy, Pleurisy Remedy, Remedy for Rheumatic Fever, Sore Throat Remedy, Special Liquid Blood Cure, Stomachic Triturates, Vitalizer, Worm Remedy.
After the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906, the Federal Government investigated many of Munyon's products. In 1911 they were judged "misbranded," and subsequently Munyon removed the name "Cure" from his homeopathic remedies.
Credit Line
Estate of Robert Vinson, through Mr J. Vinson Peter
ca 1918
ID Number
MG.M-07379
catalog number
M-07379
accession number
220980
Object Name
homeopathic preparations, display, case
Physical Description
metal (case material)
paper (product samples material)
Measurements
overall: 13 5/8 in x 15 3/8 in x 12 7/8 in; 34.6075 cm x 39.0525 cm x 32.7025 cm
place made
United States: Pennsylvania, Scranton
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Exhibition Location
National Museum of American History
National Museum of American History
Record ID
nmah_736015
Usage of Metadata (Object Detail Text)
CC0
GUID (Link to Original Record)
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-f73f-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

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