Object Details
maker
Sharp and Dohme
Description
The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer, or as found in contemporary medical literature, are:
For use as a pain reliever, especially the pain of neuralgia and spasm, pain associated with cancer, spasm associated with tetanus or strychnine poisoning, whooping cough, epilepsy, spasmodic disorders, antidote for Calabar bean poisoning, opium poisoning, diseases of the eye, myopia, profuse sweating, diarrhoea, salivation of the insane, incontinence of urine, spermatorrhoea [involuntary discharge of semen], menorrhagia [heavy menstrual flow], pulmonary haemorrhage, ptyalism [excessive salivation], hay fever, urticaria [hives]. [The National Dispensatory, 5th Edition, 1896]
Location
Currently not on view
date made
ca 1890
ID Number
1978.0883.187
accession number
1978.0883
catalog number
1978.0883.187
Object Name
pharmaceutical
Other Terms
Pharmaceuticals; Drugs; Non-Liquid
Physical Description
atropine sulphate, 1/60 gr (drug ingredient)
glass (container material)
cork (container material)
paper (container material)
Measurements
overall: 5.5 cm x 3 cm x 1 cm; 2 3/16 in x 1 3/16 in x 3/8 in
overall: 2 1/4 in x 1 in x 5/8 in; 5.715 cm x 2.54 cm x 1.5875 cm
place made
United States: Maryland, Baltimore
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Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Pain & Neuralgia Drugs
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_717514