Cascarets Candy Cathartic
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1925
name: label: maker
content: Sterling Products
notes: label: Description
content: Harry Lewis Kramer (1861-1935) established the Indian Mineral Springs health resort, later termed the Hotel Mudlavia, near Williamsport, Indiana, in 1890. He also promoted Cascarets, the critical ingredient of which was the bark of the Cascara tree, a species of buckthorn native to the Pacific northwest, and to produce this laxative he established the Sterling Remedy Co. with factories in Chicago and New York. The Neuralgyline Company purchased the Sterling Remedy Co. in 1909, and erected a factory in Wheeling, West Virginia, in 1914.
label: Description
content: The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: Laxative for constipation.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: West Virginia, Wheeling
topic: 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: 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: 1979.0798.174
label: accession number
content: 1979.0798
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0798.174
objectType: label: Object Name
content: otc preparation
label: Other Terms
content: Patent Medicines; Drugs; Non-Liquid
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1.1 cm x 9 cm x 5.8 cm; 7/16 in x 3 9/16 in x 2 5/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/8 in x 3 3/4 in x 1/2 in; 6.0325 cm x 9.525 cm x 1.27 cm