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date: label: date made
content: 1927
name: label: maker
content: H. K. Mulford Company
notes: label: Description
content: Glass footed display bottle containing yellowish liquid. Digitos is the brand name/trademark of the Mulford Company for an unofficial preparation of water-soluble active principle of digitalis leaves made by treating the leaves with chloroform, ether, alcohol and water.
label: Description
content: The uses of Digitos are the same as those of other digitalis preparations, its action being exerted chiefly on the heart, slowing and strengthening its beat. Dose: .3 to .4 cc by intramuscular or intravenous injection.
label: Description
content: One of two specimens donated in 1927 by H. K. Mulford and Company for the Digitalis Exhibit.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of H. K. Mulford Company; Accession 97399 (1927)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-02236
label: catalog number
content: M-02236
label: accession number
content: 97399
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bottle, Show
label: Object Name
content: show bottle
label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical
label: Other Terms
content: Bottle, Show; Containers
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (?? material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (stopper material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cylinder (overall shape)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 7/8 in x 2 13/16 in; 40.3225 cm x 7.14375 cm