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Stark's Headache Powders White box containing small paper packets of powder. Text lists the price as "8 POWDERS 25 CENTS."
The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: For relief of simple headache and neuralgia pains and minor menstrual discomforts. Directions: Put powder on tongue, take with drink of water. Repeat in 3 or 4 hours if necessary. Warning: Too frequent use may be injurious. Do not take more than 3 powders in 24 hours. Not for use by Children [printed on label].
Drug active ingredients: acetophenitidine [acetophenetidin, Phenacetin], 5 grains, caffeine, soda.
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Buffalo Lithia Spring Water No 2 A corked glass bottle full of water. The brown label text describes the ailments the product claims to cure as well as dosage instructions. The label and top of cork depict a seated woman wearing a long dress. A seated Native American man is in relief on the back of the bottle.
The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: indicated in all affections due to the Uric Acid Diathesis - Gout or Rheumatism in all their forms, Stones in the Bladder, Kidneys, or Liver; Bright's Disease and Kidney Diseases of every form; Albuminuria of Pregnancy or Scarlet Fever; Uraemia and its accompanying troubles; Menstrual Irregularities; Acid Dyspepsia; Nervous Disorder in all its forms; Maleral Fever; and in the preparations of Artifical Food for Infants.
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Dr. J. Walker's California Vinegar Bitters A dark green, partially corked glass bottle containing brown residue and a rectangular box, both claiming to be "The Great Blood Purifier, and Life-Giving Principle" and containing a list of the ailments the product claims to remedy.
The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: The great blood purifier and life-giving principle. A remedy for dyspepsia, indigestion, rheumatism, diarrhea, consumption, catarrh, bronchitis, neuralgia, headache, boils and ulcers, sore eyes, dropsy, scald head, paralysis, erysipelas, scrofula, tetter, skin diseases, bilious, remittent and intermittent fevers. Pains in the back, shoulders, heart and chest, liver and kidney complaints, stomach ache, jaundice, gout and fits, dizziness, colds and coughs, croup, palpitations of the heart, lead colic, nausea, biliousness, dysentary, piles, etc. Pin, tape and other worms lurking in the system of so many thousands are effectually destroyed and removed. For female complaints, in young or old, married or single, at the dawn of womanhood or the turn of life, this tonic bitters has no equal. Aperient, diaphoretic and carminative, nutritious, laxative, diuretic, sedative, counter-irritant, sudorific, alterative, and anti-bilious.
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Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, for Women A tall, narrow glass bottle with a black metal screw-on cap, a paper label, and dark brown residue on the inside. Bottle accompanied by a rectangular box. Both objects include text informing consumers of the active ingredients and dosage instructions. Text on side of box claims that the product can be used to treat "PERIODIC PAINS AND ASSOCIATED NERVOUSNESS BACKACHE AND HEADACHE DUE TO FUNCTIONAL MENSTRUAL DISTURBANCIES."
Active ingredients: valerian root, black haw, blue cohosh root, unicorn root, black cohosh root, Oregon grape root. [according to labels]
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Micajah's Medicated Wafers Box for Micajah's Medicated Wafers. Text includes the ailments the product claims to cure as well as claims that the product is "Easy of Application" and "Continuous in action." Back of box reads: "Contents of this box Twenty-five Micajah's Wafers." Bottom of box reads: "TRADE MARK Micajah & Co.; REG U.S. PAT OFFICE." The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: irritation, congestion, hyper-secretion, etc.
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Hydrozone - A Powerful Destroyer of Bacteria, Microbes and Germs in the Human System A corked glass bottle with a cloth cork covering. The red paper label contains a large amount of small white text describing the ailments the product claims to cure. The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
Treatment of catarrh, hay fever, diphtheria, croup quinsy, tonsilitis, sore throat, whooping cough, bronchitis, asthma, women's weaknesses.
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Tuttle's Family Elixir Poster depicting a formally dressed man using a cane standing in profile and the front of a box for Tuttle's Family Elixir. Poster reads: "TUTTLE'S FAMILY ELIXIR; KILLS PAIN and assists nature to strengthen and cure ; It Has No Equal; Permanent Relief for RHEUMATISM, LUMBAGO, Lame Back, Sore Throat, Bruises, Etc."
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Baldwin's Herbal Medicines Poster advertising Baldwin's Herbal Medicines. Text reads: "BALDWIN'S PATENT HERBAL MEDICINES; A LIFE INVIGORATING REMEDY FOR NERVOUSNESS; DEBILITY; CONSUMPTION; INSOMNIA; LOWNESS OF SPIRITS; Price 1 1/2 and 2/6 Per Bot." A cherub at the center of the poster holds a banner that reads "THE MEDICINE OF NATURE."
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Fight Pain and Disease with Morris Evans' Renowned Remedies Poster depicting a man wearing briefs facing an entity that appears to be a man from the waist up and a gust of wind or tornado from the waist down. The image of the men is framed in navy blue and is surrounded by illustrations of various patent medicine boxes.
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Baby Cough Syrup A corked glass bottle containing residue from a dark brown liquid. The paper label on the front face of the bottle advertises the bottle as containing three fluid ounces of "BABY COUGH SYRUP" as well as directions for dosage and administering.
The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: Used for coughs and ordinary throat irritations. Alcohol (drug active ingredients).