Seidlitz Powders, Six
date: label: date made
content: ca 1927
name: label: maker
content: Sharp and Dohme
notes: label: Description
content: One of 41 specimens donated to the museum in 1927 by Sharp & Dohme for an exhibition "telling the story of the collection, marketing, and medicinal use of well-known and extensively used drugs." The curator requested examples of official preparations of iron and potassium, and Sharp & Dohme provided 23 specimens of potassium preparations and 18 specimens of an iron preparations.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Balm of America
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Sharp and Dohme
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-02320
label: catalog number
content: M-02320
label: accession number
content: 99602
objectType: label: Object Name
content: otc preparation
label: Other Terms
content: Seidlitz Powders; Patent Medicines; Drugs; Non-Liquid
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 5/8 in x 3 3/8 in x 2 1/8 in; 4.1275 cm x 8.5725 cm x 5.3975 cm