Object Details
- Description
- Six (6) red paper-covered cardboard boxes with hinged lids and white, black and blue label on top. Boxes contain (6) 5cc glass ampules nested in cotton or wool. Three boxes have an outer paper wrapping and are sealed. Maker: Laboratoires Clin; Clin & Cie., Comar & Cie., 20, Rue des Fosses St. Jacques, France. Indications: Cancer, Tuberculosis, Infectious diseases (1914 advert., BMJ)
- Uses mentioned in medical journals: (1914) used in the treatment of fever in tuberculosis; (1920 Yearbook of the APhA) used as an injection in the treatment of sarcoma and carcinoma.
- This item is part of a collection of pharmaceutical products exhibited by the French companies, Astier Pharmacie and Clin et Cie., at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition held in San Francisco, California, in 1915. Following the close of exhibition, the objects were donated to the Smithsonian by the French Commission to the exposition.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- MG.59672.15
- accession number
- 59672
- catalog number
- 59672.15
- Object Name
- pharmaceutical
- Other Terms
- Colloidal, Electrique; Pharmaceuticals; Drugs; Liquid
- Physical Description
- colloidal copper (drug active ingredients)
- glass (container material)
- paper; cardboard (packaging material)
- Measurements
- overall, each: 1 1/4 in x 5 in x 3 7/8 in; 3.175 cm x 12.7 cm x 9.8425 cm
- place made
- France: Île-de-France, Paris
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Balm of America
- National Museum of American History
- related event
- Panama-Pacific International Exposition
- Record ID
- nmah_722258
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-4810-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
