Dr. James P. Campbell's Safe Arsenic Complexion Wafers
date: label: date made
content: ca 1916 to 1928
label: date made
content: ca 1916 to 1928
name: label: maker
content: Campbell, James P.
notes: label: Description
content: Blue and white paper wrapped box. Box is sealed. Box contains 120 wafers (tablets); price one dollar. Dr. Campbell's signature (James P. Campbell, M.D.) serves as trademark. mark on side of box: GUARANTEED ABSOLUTELY SAFE AND / HARMLESS TO ANYBODY. / N. Y. C. R. No. 21. [ "N. Y. C. R. No. 21" refers to the New York City Department of Health regulations for the registration of Proprietary Medicines as amended Dec. 21, 1915.]
label: Description
content: The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: Freckles, moth, black-heads, pimples, vulgar redness, rough, yellow or "muddy" skins and other facial disfigurements are permanently removed and a deliciously clear complexion and "rounding up" of angular forms insured. Also an absolute specific in dyspepsia, habitual constipation, malaria, neuralgia, rheumatism, loss of appetite, lack luster eyes, low spirits, want of vitality, mal-assimilation of food, headache, hay fever, etc. [1887]
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Skin & Dermatology Drugs
label: Subject
content: Rheumatism & Arthritis Drugs
label: Subject
content: Laxatives
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Beauty and Health
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content: Balm of America
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content: Beauty and Hygiene Products: Skin
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Richard Holstein
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2008.0062.04
label: accession number
content: 2008.0062
label: catalog number
content: 2008.0062.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: otc preparation
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (packaging material)
label: Physical Description
content: arsenic (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: printed (overall; wrapper production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/4 in x 2 5/8 in x 7/8 in; 4.445 cm x 6.6675 cm x 2.2225 cm