Husband's Calcined Magnesia
date: label: date made
content: 1906-1908
name: label: collection
content: Reid Drugstore
label: maker
content: Thomas J. Husband
notes: label: Description
content: The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
label: Description
content: Calcined magnesia is highly beneficial in all diseases of the stomach and bowels which are attended with acidity, and gives immediate relief to heartburn. The effects of excess in eating or drinking are generally relieved by it, and it affords one of the mildest and most pleasant aperients, especially to persons who from a sedentary life or other causes, are under the frequent necessity of having recourse to laxatives.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: Subject
content: Indigestion & Nausea Drugs
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
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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: 1984.0351.080
label: accession number
content: 1984.0351
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0351.080
objectType: label: Object Name
content: otc preparation
label: Other Terms
content: ?; Patent Medicines; Drugs
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: calcined magnesia (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: cork (container material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/8 in x 4 3/8 in x 1 3/8 in; 3.4925 cm x 11.1125 cm x 3.4925 cm