Micajah's Medicated Wafers

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Title
Micajah's Medicated Wafers See all items with this value
Description
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. See all items with this value
Identifier
2022-JL-PMP-07 See all items with this value
Creator
Micajah and Company
Date Created
after 1917 See all items with this value
Format
overall: 1.1 cm x 6.4 cm x 5.2 cm; 7/16 in x 2 1/2 in x 2 1/16 in
overall: 2 1/8 in x 2 1/2 in x 1/2 in; 5.3975 cm x 6.35 cm x 1.27 cm See all items with this value
Medium
pillboxes (containers)
cardboard
Spatial Coverage
Pennsylvania
Subject
Patent medicines See all items with this value
Sexually transmitted diseases See all items with this value
Women--Health and hygiene--United States See all items with this value
Drugs, Nonprescription See all items with this value
Skin--Inflammation See all items with this value
Rights
NO COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY
Source
National Museum of American History See all items with this value
Relation
https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_210001
Provenance
Gift of Mario Cassinelli, Jr.
Item sets
19th-20th Century Patent Medicine Packaging and Advertisements
Media
Micajah's Medicated Wafers 01
Micajah's Medicated Wafers 02
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Micajah's Medicated Wafers 04

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