Hostetter Tonic
Object Details
- Hostetter Corporation
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
- Tonic, stomachic, and appetizer
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. James Harvey Young
- 1954-1958
- ID Number
- 1989.0711.23
- accession number
- 1989.0711
- catalog number
- 1989.0711.23
- Object Name
- otc preparation
- Physical Description
- alcohol 25% (drug active ingredients)
- extracts of cinchona (drug active ingredients)
- centuary (drug active ingredients)
- anise (drug active ingredients)
- serpentaria (drug active ingredients)
- yerba santa (drug active ingredients)
- ginger (drug active ingredients)
- nux vomica tincture (strychnine, 0.0125 grain to fluid ounce) (drug active ingredients)
- culver's root (drug active ingredients)
- calamus (drug active ingredients)
- Measurements
- box: 8 1/8 in x 3 1/4 in x 1 5/8 in; 20.6375 cm x 8.255 cm x 4.1275 cm
- bottle: 7 3/4 in x 3 in x 1 1/2 in; 19.685 cm x 7.62 cm x 3.81 cm
- Place Made
- United States: Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Balm of America
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Indigestion & Nausea Drugs
- Tonics, Minerals & Vitamins
- Record ID
- nmah_748646
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-64d8-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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