Dr. J. Walker's California Vinegar Bitters
date: label: date made
content: after 1886
name: label: maker
content: R. H. McDonald Drug Company
notes: label: Description
content: The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
label: Description
content: 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, San Francisco
label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Women's Health Products
label: Subject
content: Bitters
label: Subject
content: Blood & Liver Drugs
label: Subject
content: Indigestion & Nausea Drugs
label: Subject
content: Pain & Neuralgia Drugs
label: Subject
content: Skin & Dermatology Drugs
label: Subject
content: Fever & Chill Drugs
label: Subject
content: Catarrh, Cough & Cold Drugs
label: Subject
content: Vermifuges & Parasiticides
label: Subject
content: Women's Health
label: Subject
content: Rheumatism & Arthritis Drugs
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Balm of America
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Richard Holstein
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2008.0062.28
label: accession number
content: 2008.0062
label: catalog number
content: 2008.0062.28
objectType: label: Object Name
content: otc preparation
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (container material)
label: Measurements
content: 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
label: Measurements
content: bottle: 8 1/4 in x 3 in; 20.955 cm x 7.62 cm