Tung-Kwan-San (Army Medical Powder)
date: label: date made
content: ca 1902
notes: label: Description
content: Silk brocade covered two-piece cardboard box with pink paper label with gold-colored print: TUNG. KWAN SAN. / OR / ARMY MEDICAL / POWDER, / MANUFACTURED / BY / KWONG CHI KOON / DISPENSARY / CANTON, CHINA." Box contains a small, flat, brass medicine vial embossed on both sides: KWONG / CHI / KOON" on one side "ARMY / MEDICAL / POWDER" on the other. Vial may be sealed with red wax. Paper insert included [removed and filed seperately] which includes Trade Mark [deer or goat with ribbons, flowers and fruit above] and images in green of the pwder vial. Text includes a letter in English describing the medicine signed, "Doctor J. G. Kerr, Canton Hospital, China." Directions for taking the medicine for different illnesses or symptons are printed on the back. Also includes instructions to order through Messrs. Dartly & Co., 19, Queen's Road Central, Hongkong, Sole Agents for the company. Price 50 cents per Bottle.
label: Description
content: Indications include the following as listed on the paper insert: pestilence, cholera, malaria, indigestion, all sorts of ulcers, stoppage of nostrils, apoplexy, vomiting & purging, intoxication, convulsions in children, headache and giddiness, camp [cramp?] & convulsions, colic & diarrhea, fainting, excess eating of cold food and drink, all sorts of swelling and ulcers, convulsion after childbirth.
label: Description
content: "This powder is not to be taken by Pregnant Woman"
label: Description
content: The doctor named on the insert is John Glasgow Kerr (1824-1901), an American medical missionary in China who ran the Canton Hospital from the 1850s through the 1890s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
label: Location
content: Currently not on view (paper insert)
place: label: place made
content: China: Canton, Canton
label: associated place
content: China
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: J. H. Jennings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.217348
label: accession number
content: 40275
label: catalog number
content: 217348
objectType: label: Object Name
content: crude drug
label: Object Name
content: otc preparation
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: musk; barovs [?]; camphor; rhubarb; two kinds of gum; red oxide of mercury; yellow sulphide of arsenic; animal and vegetable charcoal (medicinal product ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: paper; cardboard; silk (packaging material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (container (vial) material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 5/8 in x 2 7/8 in x 1 5/8 in; 4.1275 cm x 7.3025 cm x 4.1275 cm