B.B.B. Purgative Pills
date: label: Date made
content: after 1912
name: label: Associated Name
content: Tupper's Pharmacy
label: maker
content: Blood Balm Company
notes: label: Description
content: The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging: A mild and pleasant purgative for constipation, biliousness, sick headache, torpid liver
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: New York, New York City
label: Place Made
content: United States: Missouri, Saint Louis
topic: label: Subject
content: Indigestion & Nausea Drugs
label: Subject
content: Laxatives
label: Subject
content: Blood & Liver Drugs
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Balm of America
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mary E. and Joseph F. Melfi, Jr., Tupper's Drug Store, Summerville, South Carolina
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0698.036
label: accession number
content: 1980.0698
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0698.036
objectType: label: Object Name
content: otc preparation
label: Other Terms
content: Patent Medicines; Drugs; Non-Liquid
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper wrapper (overall packaging material)
label: Physical Description
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label: Physical Description
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content: aloes (drug active ingredients)
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content: resin scammony (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: cardamom (drug active ingredients)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 cm x 2 cm; 2 3/4 in x 13/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/4 in x 1 in; x 6.985 cm x 2.54 cm