Capsicum

Object Details

Description

The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer, or as found in contemporary medical literature, are:

Capsicum is of use in enabling feeble stomachs to digest food, as is shown by its efficacy in atonic dyspepsia. Freely taken it is said to cure hemorrhoids, as black pepper, and still other stimulants, are known to do. It perhaps sometimes cures intermittent fever, and in obstinate cases is a good stimulant to conjoin with quinia. In common with other agents of the same nature, it tends to prevent or to relieve sea-sickness. In delirium tremens it is beneficial by enabling the patient to retain and digest food; indeed, we have seldom in this disease found it necessary to employ other internal remedies than a strong soup well seasoned with red pepper. As a local stimulant it is particularly efficient in tonsillitis. The simple form may sometimes be arrested in its first stage by a capsicum gargle; and in the sore throat of scarlet fever and in diphtheria, no application is so efficient as a strong gargle or wash made with this substance. A plaster made of Burgundy pitch, with which powdered capsicum, or its oleoresin, has been incorporated, is a very efficient stimulant in cases of chronic lumbago and other forms of muscular rheumatism, neuralgia, etc. [The National Dispensatory, 4th Edition, 1880]

Location

Currently not on view

Credit Line

Gift of Sidney Snowden Stabler

1850-1900

ID Number

MG.163863.029

accession number

163863

catalog number

163863.029

Object Name

Crude Drug

pharmaceutical

Other Terms

Crude Drug; Materia Medica; Drugs; Powder

Physical Description

capsicum (drug active ingredients)

glass (overall material)

cork (lid material)

paper (label material)

Measurements

overall: 3 in x 1 1/4 in x 7/8 in; 7.62 cm x 3.175 cm x 2.2225 cm

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National Museum of American History

Subject

Indigestion & Nausea Drugs

Record ID

nmah_874809

Metadata Usage (text)

CC0

GUID (Link to Original Record)

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