Object Details
- Keasbey and Mattison Company
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer, or as found in contemporary medical literature, are:
- For brain workers. This delightful effervescent salt is an almost certain remedy for the relief of the nervous headache resulting from overtaxed mental energy or excitement, acute attacks of indigestion, the depression following alcoholic excesses, the supra-sensitiveness of chloral, morphia, and opium habitues, and with ladies the headache and backache of neurasthenia, hysteria, dysmenorrhoea and kindred disorders. A great boon and prompt source of relief in almost all cases of headache and distress attending mental fatigue and physical exhaustion, it commends itself especially to physicians, teachers, clergyman, lawyers, merchants and others following professions or pursuits requiring nerve energy subjecting to mental strain.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Gary P. and Sandra Baden
- 1920-1940
- ID Number
- 1979.0798.010
- catalog number
- 1979.0798.010
- accession number
- 1979.0798
- Object Name
- otc preparation
- Physical Description
- guarana (drug active ingredients)
- hydrobromic acid (drug active ingredients)
- caffeine (drug active ingredients)
- glass (container material)
- metal (container material)
- Measurements
- overall: 6 3/8 in x 2 1/8 in; 16.1925 cm x 5.3975 cm
- place made
- United States: Pennsylvania, Ambler
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Botanical Medicine
- Balm of America
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Indigestion & Nausea Drugs
- Women's Health Products
- Nerve & Brain Drugs
- Women's Health
- Record ID
- nmah_1279993
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ac-0c90-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
