English Female Bitters
date: label: date made
content: after 1906
label: date made
content: ca 1910
name: label: maker
content: J. P. Dromgoole Company
notes: label: Description
content: The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
label: Description
content: Recommended in non-surgical cases for those weaknesses and disorders which have heretofore been known as female complaints. After 40 years this medicine is considered by us an excellent rememdy for female complaints. For Maid or Matron, it is specially recommended for young girls just entering womanhood, and for those at the "turn of life."
label: Description
content: Dose: 1 tablespoonful 3 times a day, taken in water or water and sugar
label: Description
content: The label on the side of the box reads: "For Maid and Matron: This is not a sweetened Stomach Bitters, recommended for any and everything that the flesh is heir to, but it is a Prescription formulated expressly for the relief of disease for which it is recommended."
place: label: place made
content: United States: Kentucky, Louisville
topic: label: Subject
content: Bitters
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: American Enterprise
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content: Menstruation: Symptom Relief
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content: Balm of America
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
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.274347.224
label: catalog number
content: 274347.224
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: alcohol, 18.5% (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: cork (container material)
label: Measurements
content: box: 8 5/8 in x 3 1/8 in x 2 in; 21.9075 cm x 7.9375 cm x 5.08 cm
label: Measurements
content: bottle: 8 3/8 in x 3 in x 1 15/16 in; 21.2725 cm x 7.62 cm x 4.92125 cm