Gray's Improved Genuine Ointment
name: label: maker
content: W. F. Gray and Company
notes: label: Description
content: The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
label: Description
content: Aids in relieving the pain and discomfort of boils, minor skin irritations and abrasions, superficial cuts, burns, sun burns and minor bruises
label: Description
content: This object is one of over 700 items from Glaser’s Drug Store of Sayre, Pennsylvania. In 1921, Simon Glaser (1860-1936), an immigrant from Russian Poland, established the drug store at 121 West Packer Avenue in Sayre, PA. His son, Sidney Glaser (1899-1992), soon joined him in the business and continued to operate the store until 1961. After retiring, Sidney Glaser retained thousands of products dating from the 1920s – 1960s, including pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, personal care products, and vitamins, and donated many of them to the Smithsonian in 1985.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Tennessee, Nashville
topic: label: Subject
content: First Aid Products & Antiseptics
label: Subject
content: Pain & Neuralgia Drugs
label: Subject
content: Rubs, Liniments & Ointments
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Beauty and Hygiene Products: Cure-alls
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content: Beauty and Health
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content: Balm of America
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Sidney Glaser
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0481.067
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0481.067
label: accession number
content: 1985.0481
objectType: label: Object Name
content: otc preparation
label: Object Type
content: Drugs
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: creosote (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: oil of turpentine (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: pine tar (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: zinc oxide (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: aluminum oxide (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: phenol crystals (drug active ingredients)
label: Measurements
content: box: 1 3/4 in x 1 5/8 in x 7/8 in; 4.445 cm x 4.1275 cm x 2.2225 cm
label: Measurements
content: tin: 3/4 in x 1 1/2 in; 1.905 cm x 3.81 cm