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Pharmacy stock bottle: Tr. Belladon. (Tincture Belladonna)

American History Museum

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    Object Details

    Description

    The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer, or as found in contemporary medical literature, are:
    For neuralgia, relaxing spasm, rheumatism, jaundice, hernia, phimosis [tightening of the foreskin], paraphimosis [painful retraction of the foreskin], obstinate constipation, whooping cough, nervous cough, asthma, laryngismus stridulus [spasm of the larynx with crowing inhalations], nervous vomiting, tetanus, stychnia poisoning, epilepsy, epidemic meningitis, incontinence of urine, pupil dilation, photophobia [painful sensitivity to light], perspiration, excessive salivation, mammary secretion control, typhoid fever, cardiac dropsy, protection against scarlatina [scarlet fever] [The National Dispensatory, Second Edition, 1880]

    Location

    Currently not on view

    date made

    ca 1890

    ID Number

    MG.M-11550.01

    catalog number

    M-11550.01

    accession number

    261408

    Object Name

    bottle, apothecary
    bottle, pharmacy shelfware

    Other Terms

    Pharmaceutical; bottle; Pharmaceuticals; Drugs; Liquid

    Physical Description

    glass (overall material)
    belladonna, tincture (drug ingredient)
    paint; resin; paper (overall material)

    Measurements

    overall: 7 1/4 in; 18.415 cm
    overall: 7 1/4 in x 2 1/4 in; 18.415 cm x 5.715 cm

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    Data Source

    National Museum of American History

    Subject

    Pain & Neuralgia Drugs
    Rheumatism & Arthritis Drugs

    Metadata Usage

    CC0

    Link to Original Record

    https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-4b91-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

    Record ID

    nmah_717946

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