Menthol Plaster
date: label: date made
content: ca 1890
name: label: maker
content: National Plaster Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Inscriptions on the tube read in part “MENTHOL PLASTER / CURES NERVE DISORDERS / SEVERE ACHES / PAINS & STITCHES / BACKACHE” AND “RHEUMATISM / NEURALGIA / PLEURISY / HEADACHE” AND “MOST WONDERFUL PLASTER MADE” AND “Prepared only by the / NATIONAL PLASTER CO. / LOWELL, MASS. U.S.A.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Thomas Alfred Abbott, “Plaster,” U.S. Patent 315,691 (April 14, 1885), assigned to the National Plaster Co.
label: Description
content: The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer, or as found in contemporary medical literature, are:
label: Description
content: For curing nerve disorders, severe aches, pains and stitches, backache, rheumatism, neuralgia, pleurisy, and headache
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Lowell
topic: label: Subject
content: Pain & Neuralgia Drugs
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Botanical Medicine
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: 2008.0018.272
label: catalog number
content: 2008.0018.272
label: accession number
content: 2008.0018
objectType: label: Object Name
content: plaster
label: Object Name
content: otc preparation
label: Object Type
content: OTC Preparation
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: menthol (drug active ingredient)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/4 in x 1 1/2 in; 15.875 cm x 3.81 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 1.25 cm; 15.24 cm x 1/2 in