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K. & M. Effervescent Bromo Caffeine

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    Object Details

    maker

    Keasbey and Mattison Company

    Description

    The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer, or as found in contemporary medical literature, are:
    For brain workers. This delightful effervescent salt is an almost certain remedy for the relief of the nervous headache resulting from overtaxed mental energy or excitement, acute attacks of indigestion, the depression following alcoholic excesses, the supra-sensitiveness of chloral, morphia, and opium habitues, and with ladies the headache and backache of neurasthenia, hysteria, dysmenorrhoea 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, clergyman, lawyers, merchants and others following professions or pursuits requiring nerve energy subjecting to mental strain.

    Location

    Currently not on view

    Credit Line

    Gift of Gary P. and Sandra Baden

    date made

    1920-1940

    ID Number

    1979.0798.010

    catalog number

    1979.0798.010

    accession number

    1979.0798

    Object Name

    otc preparation

    Physical Description

    guarana (drug active ingredients)
    hydrobromic acid (drug active ingredients)
    caffeine (drug active ingredients)
    glass (container material)
    metal (container material)

    Measurements

    overall: 6 3/8 in x 2 1/8 in; 16.1925 cm x 5.3975 cm

    place made

    United States: Pennsylvania, Ambler

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    Data Source

    National Museum of American History

    Subject

    Indigestion & Nausea Drugs
    Women's Health Products
    Nerve & Brain Drugs
    Women's Health

    Metadata Usage

    CC0

    Link to Original Record

    https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ac-0c90-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

    Record ID

    nmah_1279993

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