Spencer's Fumigating Diphtheritic Pastilles - A Fumar Antiseptic for the Prophylactic and Specific Treatment of Diphtheria
date: label: date made
content: ca 1890
name: label: maker
content: Spencer, Thomas D.
notes: label: Description
content: The indications or uses of this product as provided on the packaging are:
label: Description
content: The inclosed pastilles are so compounded as to be absolutely harmless to the human economy, while their fumes effectually destroy all contagious, putrefactive and disease-bearing germs.
label: Description
content: No matter what the exposure may be, these burning pastilles will positively prevent the spreading and communicating of diphtheria, small-pox, scarlet fever and allied epidemic diseases.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Rochester
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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: Diphtheria
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content: Balm of America
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-11460.03
label: catalog number
content: M-11460.03
label: accession number
content: 260557
objectType: label: Object Name
content: otc preparation
label: Other Terms
content: Patent Medicines; Drugs; Non-Liquid
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 5 in x 4 in; 5.08 cm x 12.7 cm x 10.16 cm