Dr. Pierce's Alterative Extract or Golden Medical Discovery
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1890-1906
label: Date made
content: ca 1898
label: Date made
content: ca 1900
notes: label: Description
content: The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
label: Description
content: For the cure of all severe, chronic or lingering coughs, bronchitis, laryngitis, weak lungs, bleeding from lungs, public speaker's sore throat, hoarseness and suppression or loss of voice. A remedy for torpor of liver (generally termed "liver complaint" or "biliousness") and for habitual constipation of the bowels. For loss of appetite, indigestion and dyspepsia, and for general nervous disability or prostration, in either sex. An alterative, or blood purifier; valuable in all forms of scrofulous and other blood diseases. For skin diseases, eruptions, pimples, rashes and blotches, boils, ulcers, sores, and swellings, arising from impure blood.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: New York, Buffalo
topic: label: Subject
content: Respiratory & Asthma Drugs
label: Subject
content: Blood & Liver Drugs
label: Subject
content: Indigestion & Nausea Drugs
label: Subject
content: Laxatives
label: Subject
content: Nerve & Brain Drugs
label: Subject
content: Skin & Dermatology Drugs
label: Subject
content: Catarrh, Cough & Cold 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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-10766 [dup11]
label: catalog number
content: M-10766
label: accession number
content: 256193
objectType: label: Object Name
content: otc preparation
label: Other Terms
content: Patent Medicines; Drugs; Liquid
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pure water (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: borate of soda (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: golden seal root (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: queen's root (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: stone root (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: black cherrybark (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: bloodroot (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: mandrake root (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: glycerine (drug active ingredients)
label: Measurements
content: box: 9 in x 3 3/8 in x 2 1/8 in; 22.86 cm x 8.5725 cm x 5.3975 cm
label: Measurements
content: bottle: 8 3/8 in x 3 in x 1 3/4 in; 21.2725 cm x 7.62 cm x 4.445 cm