Wakefield's Golden Ointment
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Object Details
- retailer
- Sherman Pharmacy
- Dr. C. Wakefield and Company
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
- An excellent remedy for old sores, burns, scalds, bruises, cuts, sore nipples, sore breasts, salt rheum, chapped hands, sore throat, piles, felons, etc. Relieves nearly every kind of a sore containing either inflammation or a soft or flabby condition of the skin.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Alan & Elaine Levitt
- 1908-1918
- ID Number
- 1985.0460.109
- accession number
- 1985.0460
- catalog number
- 1985.0460.109
- Object Name
- otc preparation
- Object Type
- Drugs
- Physical Description
- alcohol, 6.5% (drug active ingredients)
- Measurements
- overall: 2 7/8 in x 2 in; 7.3025 cm x 5.08 cm
- place made
- United States: Illinois, Bloomington
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Beauty and Hygiene Products: Cure-alls
- Beauty and Health
- Balm of America
- Sherman Pharmacy, Sherman, New York
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Rubs, Liniments & Ointments
- Skin & Dermatology Drugs
- Skin Irritation (Rubs)
- Record ID
- nmah_209888
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a0-e3c0-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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