Object Details
- Keasbey & Mattison Company
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer, or as found in contemporary medical literature, are:
- For malarial diseases, preventing and curing periodic fevers, remittent fever, yellow fever, inflammatory affections, whooping cough, sunstroke, acute articular rheumatism, typhus, typhoid fever, puerperal fever, scarlet fever, smallpox, erysipelas, diphhtheria, septicemia, asthenic pneumonia, profuse sweating, pneumonia, ulcers, abscesses, eye inflammations, mucous fluxes, whooping cough, hay fever, auditory vertigo, catarrh, gonorrhea, growths, and ulcers [The National Dispensatory, 4th Edition, 1880]
- One of 13 specimens of quinine sulphate manufactured by American and foreign firms donated to the museum in 1923 by pharmaceutical chemist, Dr. Frederick B. Power. The specimens were portions of a series of samples used by an international committee around 1882 to determine standard tests for purity. Frederick Belding Power (1853-1927) was a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy (1874) and the University of Strasbourg in Germany (1880). In 1883 he became the first leader of the University of Wisconsin's College of Pharmacy and later directed research in several pharmaceutical firms. Beginning in 1916 until his death, Power led the phytochemical laboratory of the U.S.D.A. Bureau of Chemistry.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dr. Frederick B. Power
- ca 1882
- ID Number
- MG.M-01635
- catalog number
- M-01635
- accession number
- 69510
- Object Name
- pharmaceutical
- Other Terms
- Pharmaceuticals; Drugs; Non-Liquid
- Physical Description
- glass (container material)
- paper (label/packaging material)
- sulphate of quinine (drug active ingredients)
- string (packaging material)
- wax (packaging material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2 3/4 in x 1 1/4 in; 6.985 cm x 3.175 cm
- place made
- United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- The Antibody Initiative
- Antibody Initiative: Smallpox
- Botanical Medicine
- Antibody Initiative: Infectious Disease, Allergy, and Immunotherapy Collections
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Fever & Chill Drugs
- Catarrh, Cough & Cold Drugs
- Record ID
- nmah_717312
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-5994-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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