Trial Bottle of Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption
date: label: date made
content: ca 1905
name: label: maker
content: H.E. Bucklen and Company
notes: label: Description
content: The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
label: Description
content: By taking the contents of this small bottle, you will readily perceive the remarkable curative qualities of this great New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs, Colds, and all Diseases of the Throat, Chest and Lungs, which will convince you of its wonderful merits, and show you what can be done by a regular one dollar size bottle. Give it a trial. Dose for adults one teaspoonful every three hours.
label: Description
content: Proprietary (patent) medicine makers employed a wide array of advertising and marketing techniques to sell their products. The free sample, or trial size, was one of these. Dr. King's New Discovery, developed by Dr. Z. L. King of Elkhart, Indianna, was purchased by Herbert E. Bucklen around 1878. Bucklen spent lavishly on advertising which brought national recognition to his New Discovery and other medicines.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
topic: label: Subject
content: Catarrh, Cough & Cold Drugs
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content: Work and Industry: Agriculture and Natural Resources
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: American Enterprise
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content: Balm of America
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.293320.1232
label: catalog number
content: 293320.1232
label: accession number
content: 293320
objectType: label: Object Name
content: otc preparation
label: Object Name
content: Bottle, Medicine
label: Other Terms
content: Drugs
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 3/8 in x 1 1/4 in x 3/4 in; 11.1125 cm x 3.175 cm x 1.905 cm