Object Details
- Parke, Davis and Company
- Description
- One of 116 specimens of official pharmaceutical preparations donated by Parke, Davis and Company in 1920 for the pharmacy exhibits. These specimens illustrated a variety of solid and liquid “dosage forms” from tablets, gelatin capsules, and pills, to lotions, elixirs, and fluid extracts. Each dosage form was represented by two specimens and accompanied in the exhibit cases with photographs of the manufacturing processes at Parke, Davis and Company of Detroit, Michigan. The Medicinal Forms exhibit was updated in 1935 and again in 1947.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Parke, Davis and Company; Accession 064909 (1920)
- 1920
- ID Number
- MG.M-00817
- catalog number
- M-00817
- accession number
- 64909
- Object Name
- pharmaceutical dosage form, compressed tablets
- Measurements
- overall: 5 1/8 in x 1 3/4 in x 1 3/4 in; 13.0175 cm x 4.445 cm x 4.445 cm
- place made
- United States: Michigan, Detroit
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1346334
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ac-9f4e-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
