Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, for Women

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Title
Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, for Women See all items with this value
Description
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] See all items with this value
Date Created
after 1914 See all items with this value
Format
box: 8 1/2 in x 3 1/8 in x 2 in; 21.59 cm x 7.9375 cm x 5.08 cm
bottle: 8 3/8 in x 3 in x 1 7/8 in; 21.2725 cm x 7.62 cm x 4.7625 cm See all items with this value
Medium
medicine bottles
cardboard
bottle labels (paper labels)
bottle caps
Spatial Coverage
Buffalo
Subject
Medicine bottles See all items with this value
Drugs, Nonprescription See all items with this value
Herbs--Therapeutic use See all items with this value
Women--Health and hygiene--United States See all items with this value
Patent medicines 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_834853
Provenance
The Fournet Drugstore Collection
Identifier
2022-JL-PMP-03 See all items with this value
Creator
Pierce's Proprietaries, Inc.
Item sets
19th-20th Century Patent Medicine Packaging and Advertisements
Media
Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, for Women 01
Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, for Women 02
Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, for Women 03

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