Dr. LeGear's Stock Powders
date: label: date made
content: ca 1925
name: label: maker
content: Dr. L. D. LeGear Medicine Company
notes: label: Description
content: The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
label: Description
content: My own prescription for horses, cattle, sheep, and hogs. A tonic and appetizer. A condition powder and animal regulator, in many cases, among livestock. Good for many cases of common coughs, colds, distemper, kidney troubles, loss of appetite, hide bound and loss of flesh.
label: Description
content: LeGear, a doctor in veterinary medicine, sold a variety of stock and poultry medicines and remedies after graduating from Ontario Veterinary College in 1892. He also published Dr. Le Gear’s Stock Book that outlined the general care of stock and advertised his remedies for any animal maladies. This stock powder was manufactured by the Dr. L. D. LeGear Medicine Company of St. Louis Missouri around 1925. The powder was sold as a tonic and appetizer remedying coughs, colds, and loss of appetite for horses, cows, pigs, sheep and goats.
label: Description
content: This object is one of over 700 items from Glaser’s Drug Store of Sayre, Pennsylvania. In 1921, Simon Glaser (1860-1936), an immigrant from Russian Poland, established the drug store at 121 West Packer Avenue in Sayre, PA. His son, Sidney Glaser (1899-1992), soon joined him in the business and continued to operate the store until 1961. After retiring, Sidney Glaser retained thousands of products dating from the 1920s – 1960s, including pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, personal care products, and vitamins, and donated many of them to the Smithsonian in 1985.
place: label: place made
content: United States: Missouri, Saint Louis
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Sidney Glaser
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0481.417
label: accession number
content: 1985.0481
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0481.417
objectType: label: Object Name
content: veterinary product
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 3/4 in x 4 1/2 in x 2 3/8 in; 19.685 cm x 11.43 cm x 6.0325 cm