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Description An account of the resource The Mothers Friend was applied to a pregnant woman's skin and was advertised to prevent stretch marks. https://martaphoenixproject.gsuanthropology.com/files/original/0b57e6334c34bfbf8c7dc950d95ca57a.jpg 2d14b2cff2c1d7fe426461ce49d26524 https://martaphoenixproject.gsuanthropology.com/files/original/c58c63d74bb9becda6822ae034fad0f8.png c1c6d67b0773fc352e865844c5a6e772 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artifacts Description An account of the resource We have catalogued all the items that have recognizable branding or historical significance. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Mother's Friend Description An account of the resource From Medicinal Vessels of the First Gilded Age: The Mother’s Friend was one of the flagship products of J. Bradfield’s Bradfield Regulator Company. The term "regulator" was a reference to the medicine’s alleged ability to regulate the menses. A miraculous claim at the time, yet merely one claim among many for The Mother’s Friend, whose primary claims to functionality were the ability to streamline and render painless the process of childbirth. The supposed benefits of consuming The Mother’s Friend went on to include everything from a speedy “confinement” to helping make babies pretty and healthy in the womb. These claims would likely have continued ad absurdum had not the federal Food and Drug Act of 1906 required a bit more truth in advertising. Once the compound was chemically analyzed, the claims toward the results of using the product had to reflect the facts. In this way, it was shown that The Mother’s Friend should not be recommended for internal use at all. Instead, the compound should only be applied to the skin. The advertisement entitled “Mothers: Do You Know?” may appear disingenuous by insisting that there are no potent drug-compounds such as strychnine, opium, or morphine within it. Despite the various other miraculous claims typically attributed to products that did contain those drugs, in the case of the Mothers’ Friend, it was in fact true that no such narcotics were present. While the compound was not a poison, neither was it the miraculous medicine it claimed to be. Consuming Mother’s Friend internally would likely only regulate a woman’s bowel movements, certainly not her menses or her pregnancy. However, twice during 1909, consignments of Mother’s Friend were seized under the Pure Food and Drugs Act (1906) and deemed misbranded because of the claims made. Changing the claims made in regards to the compound’s qualities allowed Bradfield to continue a relatively successful production of Mother’s Friend as a lotion. In fact, the rights to produce the substance were bought in 1986. It is still being produced today, as a lotion for tight skin due to pregnancy. Ironically, the company to buy Bradfield’s famous liniment was none other than the S.S.S. Company! The lotion is still available, as of this writing, in some stores and online. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource HIP-SI 2023 Lauren Cook Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context p433, ACC 170 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 9FU91 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Weight: 181.9g W: 56.5mm H: 17cm L: 32.9mm Subject The topic of the resource Medicine Internal Medicine Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Cook, Lauren, "Medicinal Vessels of the First Gilded Age (1870-1929): Properties of Promise or Hokum of False Hope?." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2014. doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/6430686 https://ssscompany.com/blog/products/mothers-friend-history?srsltid=AU7gw4UGP33GJhLNGPJC_iK339zbsm1rCpvZnE4At_Fpzf9hoK9foGEK Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Phoenix Project Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c. 1903-1906 Type The nature or genre of the resource Glass Bottle Internal Medicine Medicine West