Hood's Sarsatabs
date: label: Date made
content: 1908-1918
name: label: maker
content: C. I. Hood and Company
notes: label: Description
content: The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
label: Description
content: For scrofula, scrofulous humors, scald head, syphilitic affections, ringworms, eczema or salt rheum, boils, pimples and humors on the face, rheumatism, catarrh, headache, dizziness, faintness at the stomach, constipation, pains in the back, female weakness, general debility, costiveness, biliousness, and all diseases arising from an impure state or low condition of the blood. Sarsatabs assist nature to expel from the system all impure and effete matter through the lungs, liver, kidneys and skin, aid all weak and debilitated organs, invigorate the nervous system, and impart new life and energy.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Lowell
topic: label: Subject
content: Indigestion & Nausea Drugs
label: Subject
content: Skin & Dermatology Drugs
label: Subject
content: STD Drugs
label: Subject
content: Blood & Liver Drugs
label: Subject
content: Women's Health Products
label: Subject
content: Rheumatism & Arthritis Drugs
label: Subject
content: Laxatives
label: Subject
content: Women's Health
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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 Mr. James Harvey Young
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0711.51
label: accession number
content: 1989.0711
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0711.51
objectType: label: Object Name
content: otc preparation
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: sarsaparilla (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: mandrake (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: gentian (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: dock (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: dandelion (drug active ingredients)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11.6 cm x 4.5 cm x 4.5 cm; 4 9/16 in x 1 3/4 in x 1 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 5/8 in x 1 7/8 in x 1 7/8 in; 11.7475 cm x 4.7625 cm x 4.7625 cm