Warburg's Tincture (Antiperiodic Tincture)
date: label: date made
content: 1928
name: label: maker
content: John Wyeth & Brother
notes: label: Description
content: One of nine specimens of cinchona preparations donated to the museum in 1928 by John Wyeth & Brother, Inc. This material replaced specimens donated in 1920 (Accession 64638) for the museum's exhibit on the uses of cinchona in medicine.
label: Description
content: German-born physician Carl Warburg (1804-1892) developed his popular fever remedy (antiperiodic) while working in British Guiana. The formula included cinchona (quinine) as well as a number of other botanicals including aloes, rhubarb, angelica seed, elecampane, saffron, fennel, gentian, zedoary, cubeb, myrrh, camphor, white agaric, black pepper, cinnamon, and ginger.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John Wyeth & Brother, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-02542
label: catalog number
content: M-02542
label: accession number
content: 103320
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pharmaceutical