Seidlitz Powders
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1900
name: label: maker
content: Meyer Brothers Drug Company
notes: label: Description
content: The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: In high estimation for indigestion, heartburn, sick headache, bilious affections, etc., and if used regularly will form a mild and gentle cathartic. Superior to any medicine of the kind in use and yet possessing all the medical virtues of the celebrated Seidlitz Springs in Germany.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Missouri, Saint Louis
topic: label: Subject
content: Laxatives
label: Subject
content: Indigestion & Nausea Drugs
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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 Gary P. and Sandra Baden
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0798.360
label: accession number
content: 1979.0798
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0798.360
objectType: label: Object Name
content: otc preparation
label: Other Terms
content: Tin; Seidlitz Powders; Patent Medicines; Drugs; Non-Liquid
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4.1 cm x 11.2 cm x 8.4 cm; 1 5/8 in x 4 7/16 in x 3 5/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 5/8 in x 4 1/2 in x 3 3/8 in; 4.1275 cm x 11.43 cm x 8.5725 cm