Dr. A. Langham's Lightning Liniment (3 L.L.L.)
date: label: date made
content: after 1918
name: label: maker
content: Jones Medicine Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Brown cardboard box with black printed text and trademark profile of Dr. A. Langham. Box contains a glass bottle with cork stopper and white and black paper label with red border. The trademark image of Dr. Langham also appears on the bottle labelBottle is full of pale yellow fluid; 2 fl.oz.
label: Description
content: This camphor and chloroform laced liniment was first marketed around 1895. Following the deadly influenza pandemic of 1918, the Jones Medicine Company claimed their product contained “germ-destroying ingredients” that would positively prevent an attack of this “frightful disease.”
label: Description
content: Printed on side of box:
label: Description
content: "DR. A. LANGHAM's (3.L.L.L.) LIGHTNING LINIMENT carries the unqualified endorsement of the most prominent and succesful Doctors, Judges, Farmers, Lawyers, Bankers, Merchants, etc. of Caldwell, Texas, where it has been sold without a complaint for over twenty-five years. Knowing that our (3.L.L.L.) Liniment contains three of the most deadly GERM-DESTROYING ingredients known, we believed confidently that our preparation would PREVENT Spanish influenza and at its first outbreak in 1918 we determined to make every test possible in order to satisfy our own minds whether or not our liniment would IN FACT PREVENT an attack of this frightful disease. As a result of our experiments we are very proud to announce that we feel absolutely sure that we have discovered in our (3.L.L.L.) Liniment a Sure, Dependable PREVENTATIVE of Spanish influenza, the most CONTAGIOUS and DEADLY plague known to the people of this generation"
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Texas, Beeville
topic: label: Subject
content: Fever & Chill Drugs
label: related event
content: 1918–1920 flu pandemic
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: The Antibody Initiative
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Antibody Initiative: Influenza
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content: Balm of America
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Food and Drug Administration
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.274347.182
label: catalog number
content: 274347.182
label: accession number
content: 274347
objectType: label: Object Name
content: otc preparation
label: Other Terms
content: Patent Medicines; Drugs; Liquid
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: chloroform, 10% (drug ingredient)
label: Physical Description
content: alcohol-camphor, 10% (drug ingredient)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (packaging material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (container material)
label: Measurements
content: box: 6 5/8 in x 2 5/8 in x 1 3/4 in; 16.8275 cm x 6.6675 cm x 4.445 cm
label: Measurements
content: bottle: 5 3/4 in x 2 in x 1 1/8 in; 14.605 cm x 5.08 cm x 2.8575 cm