Object Details
- Description
- One of forty-two (42) specimens illustrating the manufacture of pills and tablets donated by Parke, Davis and Company in 1932 for the pharmacy exhibits. The specimens illustrate the ingredients and intermediate steps in the production of Compound Cathartic Pills (see M-03184 through M-03193) and Pepsin, Bismuth and Charcoal Compressed Tablets (see M-03194 through M-03203). The specimens were exhibited along with photographs of the process from the Parke Davis plant in Detroit, Michigan, and several examples of packaged pill and tablet products. This exhibit replaced a 1921 exhibit on the same subject provided by El Lilly and Company (see accession 66991).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Parke, Davis and Company
- Date made
- 1932
- Credit Line
- Gift of Parke, Davis and Company; Accession 118114 (1932)
- Measurements
- overall: 6 in x 2 3/8 in x 1 5/8 in; 15.24 cm x 6.0325 cm x 4.1275 cm
- Object Name
- Pharmaceutical
- pharmaceutical
- Other Terms
- Pharmaceutical; Pharmaceuticals; Drugs; Non-Liquid
