Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, for Women

Title: Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, for Women
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]
Date Created: after 1914
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
Medium: medicine bottles; cardboard; bottle labels (paper labels); bottle caps
Spatial Coverage: Buffalo
Subject: Medicine bottles; Drugs, Nonprescription; Herbs--Therapeutic use; Women--Health and hygiene--United States; Patent medicines
Rights: NO COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY
Source: National Museum of American History
Relation: https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_834853
Provenance: The Fournet Drugstore Collection
Identifier: 2022-JL-PMP-03
Creator: Pierce's Proprietaries, Inc.

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