Uterine Tonic (Buckley)
date: label: date made
content: 1907-1915
name: label: maker
content: Abbott Alkaloidal Company
notes: label: Description
content: Square glass bottle with cork stopper and paper label that reads in part “500 / Uterine / Tonic / Buckley” and “The Abbott Alkaloidal Co. / CHICAGO.” The bottle is full of round white pills.
label: Description
content: Wallace C. Abbott (1857-1921) was a physician with a medical degree from the University of Michigan who acquired a pharmacy in Ravenswood, Ill. in 1886, and established the Abbott Alkaloidal Co. in 1888. The company specialized in "dosimetric granules" which contained a precisely measured amount of an alkaloid -- the active compound extracted from a medicinal plant. In 1915 the firm became Abbott Laboratories.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
topic: label: Subject
content: Women's Health
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Joseph F. and Rosemary L. Robrecht
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0227.099
label: accession number
content: 1981.0227
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0227.099
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Uterine Tonic
label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical
label: Other Terms
content: Uterine Tonic; Pharmaceuticals; Drugs; Non-Liquid
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: aletrin, 1/12 gr.; bryonin, 1/500 gr.; caulophyllin, helonin and macrotin, each 1/6 gr.; hyoscyamine amor., 1/500 gr. (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: glass; cork; paper (container material)
label: Measurements
content: box: 4 3/8 in x 1 1/2 in x 1 1/2 in; 11.1125 cm x 3.81 cm x 3.81 cm
label: Measurements
content: bottle: 4 1/8 in x 1 3/8 in x 1 3/8 in; 10.4775 cm x 3.4925 cm x 3.4925 cm