Patent Medicine (Oversize)
name: label: Series Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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content: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Patent Medicines
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content: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Patent Medicines / Business Records, Marketing Material, and Other
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE: Materials relate to the production and sales of patent and homeopathic medicinal treatments in the United States and originate from the manufacturers of medicinal treatments, doctors, and alternative medicine schools.

The oversize items are comprised of printed advertisements, posters, store signage and displays, circulars, product packaging, pamphlets, ledgers, labels, related publications, and images. Many items include testimonials, pictures of products, and images of people, herbs and botanicals.

The items offer treatments that profess to cure spavins, callouses, rheumatism, coughs, colds, asthma, skin diseases, aches and pains, influenza, deafness, catarrah, and whooping cough among others. The material dates mostly from the nineteenth century

SUBJECT TERMS: BT Pharmaceuticals , BT Medical Treatments NT  Cures, NT Pills , NT Syrups , NT Liniments , NT Lozenges , NT Tonics , RT Homeopathic Treatments RT  Alternative Medicine
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: See also, MEDICINE