talc, compound powder of
date: label: Date made
content: 1920
name: label: maker
content: Parke, Davis and Company
notes: label: Description
content: One of 116 specimens of official pharmaceutical preparations donated by Parke, Davis and Company in 1920 for the pharmacy exhibits. These specimens illustrated a variety of solid and liquid “dosage forms” from tablets, gelatin capsules, and pills, to lotions, elixirs, and fluid extracts. Each dosage form was represented by two specimens and accompanied in the exhibit cases with photographs of the manufacturing processes at Parke, Davis and Company of Detroit, Michigan. The Medicinal Forms exhibit was updated in 1935 and again in 1947.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Michigan, Detroit
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Parke, Davis and Company; Accession 064909 (1920)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-00805
label: catalog number
content: M-00805
label: accession number
content: 64909
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Talc, Compound Powder of
label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical
label: Other Terms
content: Talc, Compound Powder of; Pharmaceuticals; Drugs; Non-Liquid
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 cm x 4.5 cm x 4.5 cm; 5 1/8 in x 1 3/4 in x 1 3/4 in