Object Details
maker
Grove Laboratories, Inc.
Description
The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: For relief of malaria and resulting chills and fever
Orange cardboard box with trademark image of a "laughing baby" on the front. Box contains a glass bottle with orange metal cap and paper labels on the front and back. Bottle full of dark liquid. Price 50 cents. 4 fluid ounces.
Printed on the side of the box: "IMPORTANT NOTICE! The tasteless ingredients of GROVE'S CHILL TONIC have "gone to war". Do not be alarmed therefore if you detect a slight bitterness." "The medicine now being used (Totaquine) ia an effective anti-malarial recommended by the U. S. Government, and consits of a mixture of quinine, quinidine, cinchonine, cinchonidine and other cinchona extractives as described in the United States Pharmacopoeia."
Totaquine was used as a substitute for quinine during WWII after the Japanese gained control of the world's major quinine supply.
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Gift of William H. Helfand
date made
1941-1945
ID Number
1985.0464.01
accession number
1985.0464
catalog number
1985.0464.01
Object Name
otc preparation
Other Terms
Patent Medicines; Drugs
Physical Description
glass (container material)
cardboard (container material)
paper (container material)
metal (container material)
totaquine (drug active ingredients)
reduced iron (drug active ingredients)
simple syrup, lemon-flavored (drug active ingredients)
Measurements
box: 6 in x 2 7/8 in x 1 5/8 in x 15.4 cm; 15.24 cm x 7.3025 cm x 4.1275 cm x 6 1/16 in
bottle: 5 3/4 in x 2 3/8 in x 1 1/4 in; 14.605 cm x 6.0325 cm x 3.175 cm
place made
United States: Missouri, Saint Louis
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Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Fever & Chill Drugs
related event
World War II
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_738103