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K. & M. Effervescent Bromo Caffeine

National Museum of American History

Object Details

Keasbey & Mattison Company
Description
The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: "Combining the active principle of Guarana with excess of combined Hydrobromic Acid, this preparation more than equals one grain of Hydrobromate of Caffeine in each heaping teaspoonful. This delightful effervescent salt is an almost certain remedy for the relief of the nervous headaches resulting from overtaxed mental energy or excitement, acute attacks of indigestions, the depression following alcoholic excesses, the supra-sensitiveness of chloral, morphia and opium habitues, and with ladies the headache and backache of neurasthenia, hysteria, dysmennorrhea, and kindred disorders. A great boon and prompt source of relief in almost all cases of headache and distress attending mental fatigue and physical exhaustion, it commends itself especially to Physicians, Teachers, Clergymen, Lawyers, Merchants, and others following professions or pursuits requiring nerve energy or subjecting to mental strain."
Location
Currently not on view
after 1920 before 1938
ID Number
1978.0883.011.A
accession number
1978.0883
catalog number
1978.0883.011.A
Object Name
otc preparation
Other Terms
Patent Medicines; Drugs
Physical Description
paper (packaging material)
glass (overall material)
cork (lid material)
paper (inside material)
Measurements
overall: 3 5/8 in x 1 5/8 in; 9.2075 cm x 4.1275 cm
place made
United States: Pennsylvania, Ambler
United States: Illinois, Chicago
United States: New York, New York City
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Medicine and Science: Medicine
Balm of America
National Museum of American History
Subject
Nerve & Brain Drugs
Record ID
nmah_719074
Metadata Usage (text)
CC0
GUID (Link to Original Record)
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-3bc6-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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