Pe-Ru-Na (patent medicine)



Pe-Ru-Na was a patent medicine promoted by Samuel Hartman and his Peruna Company as a curative for "catarrhal" diseases (i.e. inflammation of mucus membranes in the sinuses, nose, throat), which may be read as being inclusive of anything from the common cold to influenza, or, per the Peruna line, a half of all human diseases.