Walker's Medicated Uterine Wafers
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
name: label: maker
content: Walker Pharmacal Company
notes: label: Description
content: The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer:
label: Description
content: A remedy for the local treatment of diseases peculiar to women, as falling of the womb, chronic inflammation, prolapse, engorgement, ulceration, leucorrhoea, irregular, suppressed and painful menstruation. Especially recommended for diseases incidental to the change of life, and for cancer.
label: Description
content: DIRECTIONS: Pass one Wafer up to the neck of the Womb every third day, on retiring at night.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Missouri, St. Louis
topic: label: Subject
content: Women's Health Products
label: Subject
content: Women's Health
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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Richard Holstein
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2008.0062.03
label: accession number
content: 2008.0062
label: catalog number
content: 2008.0062.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: otc preparation
label: Object Name
content: OTC preparation
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: abrus precatorius (drug active ingredients)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1.5 cm x 6 cm x 5.1 cm; 9/16 in x 2 3/8 in x 2 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 2 3/8 in x 5/8 in; 5.08 cm x 6.0325 cm x 1.5875 cm