Object Details
- 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 local astringent and soothing anodyne [Epitome of Therapeutics, John Wyeth & Brothers, 1901]
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Henry Thayer & Company
- date made
- 1850-1900
- Physical Description
- camphor, 1 gr. (drug active ingredients)
- acetate of lead, 1 gr. (drug active ingredients)
- opium, 1 gr. (drug active ingredients)
- glass (container material)
- paper (label material)
- cork (stopper material)
- Measurements
- overall: 8 cm x 3 cm; 3 1/8 in x 1 3/16 in
- overall: 3 1/8 in x 1 3/8 in; 7.9375 cm x 3.4925 cm
- Object Name
- pharmaceutical
- Other Terms
- Pharmaceuticals; Drugs; Non-Liquid
