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Zoa-Phora

National Museum of American History

Object Details

Zoa-Phora Company
Description
The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging: For all forms of female weakness, painful, scanty, delayed or declining periods, spasms at month, local discharges or whites, impaired complexion, sick headache, neuralgia, debility, goneness, falling of the womb, arising from want of tone in the system, preparatory treatment for confinement, after-pains, change of life, hot flushes, wakefulness, bloating, etc.
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Gift of Mary E. and Joseph F. Melfi, Jr., Tupper's Drug Store, Summerville, South Carolina
after 1905
ID Number
1980.0698.068
accession number
1980.0698
catalog number
1980.0698.068
Object Name
otc preparation
Other Terms
Patent Medicines; Drugs; Liquid
Physical Description
cardboard (overall packaging material)
glass (overall packaging material)
mandrake (podophyllum) (drug active ingredients)
black cohosh (cimicifuga racemosa) (drug active ingredients)
blue cohosh (caulophyllum thalactroides) (drug active ingredients)
life root (semecio aureus) (drug active ingredients)
roman chamomile flowers (anthemis nobilis) (drug active ingredients)
false unicorn root (helonias dioica) (drug active ingredients)
cramp bark (zibernum opulus) (drug active ingredients)
Measurements
box: 8 in x 3 3/8 in x 2.375 cm; 20.32 cm x 8.5725 cm x 15/16 in
paper inserts, as stored: 16 in x 26 in; 40.64 cm x 66.04 cm
bottle: 7 3/8 in x 2 3/4 in x 2 in; 18.7325 cm x 6.985 cm x 5.08 cm
Place Made
United States: Michigan, Kalamazoo
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Medicine and Science: Medicine
Health & Medicine
Menstruation: Symptom Relief
Balm of America
National Museum of American History
Subject
Women's Health Products
Women's Health
Menstruation
Menopause
Record ID
nmah_715808
Metadata Usage (text)
CC0
GUID (Link to Original Record)
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a7-51d6-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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