Dr. J. Walker's California Vinegar Bitters

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Title
Dr. J. Walker's California Vinegar Bitters See all items with this value
Description
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. See all items with this value
Identifier
2022-JL-PMP-04 See all items with this value
Creator
R. H. McDonald Drug Company
Date Created
after 1886 See all items with this value
Format
box: 9 1/2 in x 3 1/8 in x 3 1/8 in; 24.13 cm x 7.9375 cm x 7.9375 cm
bottle: 8 1/4 in x 3 in; 20.955 cm x 7.62 cm See all items with this value
Medium
medicine bottles
cardboard
bottle labels (paper labels)
corks (stoppers)
Spatial Coverage
New York
Subject
Medicine bottles See all items with this value
Drugs, Nonprescription See all items with this value
Patent medicines See all items with this value
Women--Health and hygiene--United States See all items with this value
Analgesics See all items with this value
Catarrh See all items with this value
Rheumatism See all items with this value
Fever See all items with this value
Nausea See all items with this value
Dermatology See all items with this value
Anthelmintics 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_1352156
Provenance
Gift of Richard Holstein
Item sets
19th-20th Century Patent Medicine Packaging and Advertisements
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