Grove's Chill Tonic
date: label: date made
content: 1941 - 1945
name: label: maker
content: Grove Laboratories
notes: label: Description
content: Orange cardboard box with trademark image of a "laughing baby" on the front. Box contains a glass bottle with orange metal cap and paper labels on the front and back. Bottle full of dark liquid. Price 50 cents. 4 fluid ounces.
label: Description
content: The indications as they appear on the packaging: For relief of malaria and resulting chills and fever.
label: Description
content: Printed on the side of the box and on the bottle's back label: "IMPORTANT NOTICE! The tasteless ingredients of GROVE'S CHILL TONIC have "gone to war". Do not be alarmed therefore if you detect a slight bitterness." "The medicine now being used (Totaquine) ia an effective anti-malarial recommended by the U. S. Government, and consits of a mixture of quinine, quinidine, cinchonine, cinchonidine and other cinchona extractives as described in the United States Pharmacopoeia."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Missouri, Saint Louis
label: Associated Place
content: United States: Missouri, Saint Louis
topic: label: related event
content: World War II
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Balm of America
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.0165.011
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0165.011
label: accession number
content: 2012.0165
objectType: label: Object Name
content: otc preparation
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: totaquine (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: reduced iron (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: lemon flavor simple syrup (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (container material)
label: Measurements
content: box: 6 in x 2 7/8 in x 1 5/8 in; 15.24 cm x 7.3025 cm x 4.1275 cm
label: Measurements
content: bottle: 5 3/4 in x 2 3/8 in x 1 3/8 in; 14.605 cm x 6.0325 cm x 3.4925 cm