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 nervous system stimulant, local rubefacient and stimulant, used with more powerful medicines to promote parturition [childbirth], and to check uterine hemorrhage after labor and during menstruation. The water and the oil of cinnamon are used to impart an agreeable flavor to medicines, and the former is associated with astringents in the treatment of diarrhea. [The National Dispensatory, 5th Edition, 1896]
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- W. N. Walton
- date made
- 1862-1867
- Credit Line
- American Pharmaceutical Association collection
- Physical Description
- glass stoppered (overall shape)
- round (overall shape)
- wide mouth (overall shape)
- colorless (stopper color)
- colorless (label color)
- cinnamon (drug active ingredient)
- glass (overall material)
- flint ware (disjoint part popular color name)
- flint ware (overall popular color name)
- Measurements
- overall: 8 in x 3 in; 20.32 cm x 7.62 cm
- overall: 19.75 cm x 7.5 cm; 7 25/32 in x 2 15/16 in
- Object Name
- Bottle
- bottle, apothecary
- bottle, pharmacy shelfware
- Other Terms
- Bottle; Containers
