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Bliss Native Oil - with Sample of Bliss Native Herbs for Constipation

Object Details

Description
The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
Used externally for pains caused by muscular rheumatism, lumbago, sprains, soreness of muscles, stiff neck, chilblains, frost-bites, poisonous stings. If freely applied when fever blisters and pimples are forming, it will cause the swelling to quickly disappear.
Location
Currently not on view
Data Source
National Museum of American History
maker
Alonzo O. Bliss Medical Company
date made
after 1906
Credit Line
Gift of Richard Holstein
Physical Description
glass (container material)
paper (container material)
wood (container material)
alcohol, 75% (drug active ingredients)
cardboard (packaging material)
Measurements
box: 5 5/8 in x 2 1/8 in x 1 in; 14.2875 cm x 5.3975 cm x 2.54 cm
bottle: 4 7/8 in x 1 3/4 in x 7/8 in; 12.3825 cm x 4.445 cm x 2.2225 cm
wood vial: 2 in x 5/8 in x 5/8 in; 5.08 cm x 1.5875 cm x 1.5875 cm
Object Name
otc preparation
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