Object Details
- Description
- One of twelve (12) specimens of official pharmaceutical preparations derived from animals donated by Sharp & Dohme in 1929 for the pharmacy exhibits. These specimens replaced material from the 1920 “Modern Medicine -- Animal Products” exhibit. Objects in the pharmacy exhibits were often replaced with “fresh” preparations as specimens became depleted, discolored, or out-of-date.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Sharp and Dohme
- date made
- ca 1929
- Credit Line
- Gift of Sharp and Dohme
- Physical Description
- glass (container material)
- Measurements
- overall: 5 1/2 in x 1 3/4 in x 1 3/4 in; 13.97 cm x 4.445 cm x 4.445 cm
- Object Name
- Pepsin and Bismuth, Elixir
- pharmaceutical
- Other Terms
- Pepsin and Bismuth, Elixir; Pharmaceuticals; Drugs; Liquid
