Dr. J. Walker's California Vinegar Bitters

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Title (Dublin Core): Dr. J. Walker's California Vinegar Bitters
Description (Dublin Core): 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.
Identifier (Dublin Core): 2022-JL-PMP-04
Creator (Dublin Core): R. H. McDonald Drug Company
Date Created (Dublin Core): after 1886
Format (Dublin Core): 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
Medium (Dublin Core): medicine bottles; cardboard; bottle labels (paper labels); corks (stoppers)
Spatial Coverage (Dublin Core): New York
Subject (Dublin Core): Medicine bottles; Drugs, Nonprescription; Patent medicines; Women--Health and hygiene--United States; Analgesics; Catarrh; Rheumatism; Fever; Nausea; Dermatology; Anthelmintics
Rights (Dublin Core): NO COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY
Source (Dublin Core): National Museum of American History
Relation (Dublin Core): https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1352156
Provenance (Dublin Core): Gift of Richard Holstein

Item sets: 19th-20th Century Patent Medicine Packaging and Advertisements

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