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Cascasweet

Object Details

Description
The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
For your baby for diarrhea, dysentery, summer complaints, constipation, worms, convulsions, teething, wind colic, vomiting of sour curd, mal-assimilation of food, sour stomach, feverishness and want of sleep
Location
Currently not on view
Data Source
National Museum of American History
maker
E. C. DeWitt and Company
Date made
1908-1918
associated date
1906
Physical Description
grain alcohol 5% (drug active ingredients)
wormseed (drug active ingredients)
cascara (drug active ingredients)
rhubarb (drug active ingredients)
pumpkin seed (drug active ingredients)
alex senna (drug active ingredients)
rochelle salts (drug active ingredients)
anise seed (drug active ingredients)
Measurements
overall: 15.7 cm x 5.5 cm x 3 cm; 6 3/16 in x 2 3/16 in x 1 3/16 in
box: 6 1/2 in x 2 1/8 in x 1 1/4 in; 16.51 cm x 5.3975 cm x 3.175 cm
bottle: 5 3/4 in x 2 in x 1 in; 14.605 cm x 5.08 cm x 2.54 cm
Object Name
otc preparation
Other Terms
Patent Medicines; Drugs; Liquid
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