McElree's Cardui
date: label: date made
content: 1920s-1930s
name: label: maker
content: Chattanooga Medicine Company
notes: label: Description
content: The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: A vegetable bitter tonic and stomachic, with antispasmodic properties valuable in relieving functional dysmenorrhea (painful menstruation not due to alteration of organs). A bitter tonic and stomachic to stimulate the appetite when deficient, and in such cases to stimulate the cells of the stomach to help increase the amount of gastric juice and thus to improve digestion and nutrition.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Tennessee, Chattanooga
topic: label: Subject
content: Women's Health
label: Subject
content: Women's Health Products
label: Subject
content: Menstruation
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Menstruation: Symptom Relief
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content: Balm of America
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Richard W. Pollay
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2008.0018.234
label: catalog number
content: 2008.0018.234
label: accession number
content: 2008.0018
objectType: label: Object Name
content: otc preparation
label: Object Type
content: OTC Preparation
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: alcohol 19% (overall active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: blessed thistle (Cnicus benedictus, tops and stems) (overall active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: black haw (Viburnum prunifolium, root and tree bark) (overall active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: golden seal (Hydrastis Canadensis, rhizomes and roots, hydrastis tops which are not official) (overall active ingredients)
label: Measurements
content: box: 7 7/8 in x 2 7/8 in x 1 5/8 in; 20.0025 cm x 7.3025 cm x 4.1275 cm
label: Measurements
content: bottle: 7 1/2 in x 2 3/4 in x 1 1/2 in; 19.05 cm x 6.985 cm x 3.81 cm