McNess Mentholated Ointment
date: label: date made
content: ca 1940
name: label: maker
content: Furst-McNess Company
notes: label: Description
content: The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
label: Description
content: A highly medicated ointment for superficial varieties of simple open sores, minor cuts, burns, scalds, chapped hands.
label: Description
content: DIRECTIONS: For external use, apply freely and if necessary bind up with a clean bandage, renewing once a day. For Nasal Irritations apply in the nostrils two or three times a day, inserting with the finger as far as possible. For Burns and Scalds, spread the Ointments on a clean cloth and bind up, renewing the bandage daily. For Blackhears apply freely at night. In the morning cover the face with towel wrung out of moderately hot water, renewing the towel frequently for ten minutes. Then wash off with clean, cool water and dry by patting with a soft towel.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Freeport
topic: label: Subject
content: Skin & Dermatology Drugs
label: Subject
content: First Aid Products & Antiseptics
label: Subject
content: Rubs, Liniments & Ointments
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Beauty and Hygiene Products: Cure-alls
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content: Beauty and Health
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content: Balm of America
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Gary P. and Sandra Baden
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0798.179
label: accession number
content: 1979.0798
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0798.179
objectType: label: Object Name
content: otc preparation
label: Other Terms
content: Patent Medicines; Non-Liquid
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: camphor (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: menthol (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: oil eucalyptus (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: lanolin (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: petrolatum (drug active ingredients)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in x 3 5/8 in; 3.175 cm x 9.2075 cm