Gelatin Coated No. 155 Cascara Sagrada Nux Vomica and Belladonna Pills
date: label: date made
content: ca 1890s
name: label: maker
content: Parke, Davis and Company
notes: label: Description
content: The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer, or as found in contemporary medical literature, are:
label: Description
content: For use as a laxative, cathartic, hepatic and intestinal tonic. It relieves constipation by restoring tonicity to the bowels. [<i>Physicians' Manual of Therapeutics:</i> Referring especially to the products of the pharmaceutical and biological laboratories of Parke, Davis & Company, 1901]
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Michigan, Detroit
topic: label: Subject
content: Laxatives
label: Subject
content: Indigestion & Nausea Drugs
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Botanical Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John C. Helenore
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-07237
label: catalog number
content: M-07237
label: accession number
content: 220009
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical
label: Other Terms
content: Pharmaceuticals; Drugs; Non-Liquid
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cork (lid material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (label material)
label: Physical Description
content: Ext. Cascara Sag., 2 gr. (drug active ingredient)
label: Physical Description
content: Ext. Nux Vomica, 1/8 gr. (drug active ingredient)
label: Physical Description
content: Ext. Belladonna, 1/16 gr. (drug active ingredient)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 1 3/8 in x 1 in; 8.89 cm x 3.4925 cm x 2.54 cm