Wood's Female Medicine
date: label: date made
content: ca 1890
name: label: maker
content: Wood Drug Company
notes: label: Description
content: The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: Female diseases; where a sexual tonic is necessary to bring about a regular and perfect function to the female organization, increase flow where it is scanty, improve appetite and digestion, suppressed menstruation that may be due to cold, debility of the blood, or ovaries. Cures prolapsus or falling of the womb, leucorrhoea or whites, ulcerations and kindred affections at the dreaded period of cessation, or change of life, which is often characterized by headache, fainting spells, general debility, spasmodic affections, hypochondria, melancholy, pains in the loins or limbs, apparent letting down of the whole system, hysteria, etc. Anemia
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Virginia, Bristol
topic: label: Subject
content: Women's Health
label: Subject
content: Women's Health Products
label: Subject
content: Menopause
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.0165.021
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0165.021
label: accession number
content: 2012.0165
objectType: label: Object Name
content: otc preparation
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (container material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/2 in x 3 1/8 in x 1 7/8 in; 24.13 cm x 7.9375 cm x 4.7625 cm