Dr. Kilmer's Female Remedy
name: label: maker
content: Dr. Kilmer and Company
notes: label: Description
content: "Specially adapted to female constitutions," this was the first product made by Dr. Kilmer & Co., an enterprise founded in the 1870s by a successful medical practioner from Binghamton, New York. Its label proclaims the medicine as "The Great Blood Purifier and System Regulator. The Only Herbal Alterative and Depurative Ever Discovered."
label: Description
content: Kilmer's company was one of the first firms to advertise nationally, and examples of its 18 herbal remedies, including the popular "Swamp Root and Kidney Cure," could be found in homes across the country. Due to their questionable ingredients and extravagant therapeutic claims, proprietary medicines such as Dr. Kilmer's became targeted by the National Food and Drug Act of 1906.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: New York, Binghamton
topic: label: Subject
content: Women's Health Products
label: Subject
content: Women's Health
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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 H. Bogard
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2000.0137.088
label: accession number
content: 2000.0137
label: catalog number
content: 2000.0137.088
objectType: label: Object Name
content: otc preparation
label: Other Terms
content: Drugs
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: unknown (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 3/4 in x 2 3/4 in x 1 5/8 in; 22.225 cm x 6.985 cm x 4.1275 cm