Stark's Headache Powders
date: label: date made
content: ca 1920s
name: label: collection
content: Reid Drugstore
label: maker
content: Starks and Company
notes: label: Description
content: The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
label: Description
content: For relief of simple headache and neuralgia pains and minor menstrual discomforts.
label: Description
content: Directions: Put powder on tongue, take with drink of water. Repeat in 3 or 4 hours if necessary.
label: Description
content: Warning: Too frequent use may be injurious. Do not take more than 3 powders in 24 hours. Not for use by Children.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Kentucky, Midway
topic: label: Subject
content: Pain & Neuralgia Drugs
label: Subject
content: Women's Health Products
label: Subject
content: Women's Health
label: Subject
content: Menstruation
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Menstruation: Symptom Relief
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content: Balm of America
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content: Reid Pharmacy, Clifton, Illinois
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Blanche E. Reid
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0351.012
label: accession number
content: 1984.0351
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0351.012
objectType: label: Object Name
content: otc preparation
label: Other Terms
content: ?; Patent Medicines; Drugs
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: acetophenitidine [acetophenetidin], 5 grains (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: caffeine (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: soda (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (powder wrapper material)
label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (container material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/8 in x 3 5/8 in x 1/2 in; 5.3975 cm x 9.2075 cm x 1.27 cm