Object Details
- Phamacie Astier
- Description
- Cylindrical glass bottle with metal screw-on cap and paper, wrap-around labels. Label on neck of bottle is blue with black print, and has images of medals awarded. Main label is brown with black and red print. Bottle is full of contents / unopened.
- Maker: Pharmacie Astier, 72 Avenue Kleber, Paris
- Dose/Directions: Deux Cuillerees a Cafe par jour dans du vin ou dans tout autre liquide aqueux (Two teaspoons per day in wine or any other aqueous liquid)
- Indications per label: aliment d'epargne; anti-neurasthenique; regulator du coeur; excitant du systeme musculare (anti-neurasthenic; heart regulator; muscular system stimulant)
- 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
- c. 1900
- ID Number
- MG.59672.12
- maker number
- 341184
- accession number
- 59672
- catalog number
- 59672.12
- Object Name
- otc preparation
- Other Terms
- Pharmaceuticals; Drugs; Non-Liquid
- Physical Description
- caffeine; theobromine; rouge de kola (red kola); tannin (drug active ingredients)
- Measurements
- overall: 4 3/4 in x 1 3/4 in; 12.065 cm x 4.445 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_717791
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-6147-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
