Object Details
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer, or as found in contemporary medical literature, are:
- For neuralgia, relaxing spasm, rheumatism, jaundice, hernia, phimosis [tightening of the foreskin], paraphimosis [painful retraction of the foreskin], obstinate constipation, whooping cough, nervous cough, asthma, laryngismus stridulus [spasm of the larynx with crowing inhalations], nervous vomiting, tetanus, stychnia poisoning, epilepsy, epidemic meningitis, incontinence of urine, pupil dilation, photophobia [painful sensitivity to light], perspiration, excessive salivation, mammary secretion control, typhoid fever, cardiac dropsy, protection against scarlatina [scarlet fever] [The National Dispensatory, Second Edition, 1880]
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ca 1890
- ID Number
- MG.M-11550.01
- catalog number
- M-11550.01
- accession number
- 261408
- Object Name
- bottle, apothecary
- bottle, pharmacy shelfware
- Other Terms
- Pharmaceutical; bottle; Pharmaceuticals; Drugs; Liquid
- Physical Description
- glass (overall material)
- belladonna, tincture (drug ingredient)
- paint; resin; paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 7 1/4 in; 18.415 cm
- overall: 7 1/4 in x 2 1/4 in; 18.415 cm x 5.715 cm
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- The Antibody Initiative
- Botanical Medicine
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Pain & Neuralgia Drugs
- Rheumatism & Arthritis Drugs
- Record ID
- nmah_717946
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-4b91-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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