Oleoresin of Ginger
date: label: date made
content: ca 1880s
name: label: maker
content: Theodore Metcalf & 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 carminative stimulant when taken internally, and when applied to the skin it occasions redness, heat, and tingling. The infusion and tincture have been largely used to correct diarrhoea occasioned by cold, and even for a similar purpose in the forming stage of epidemic cholera. Ginger has also been recommended in chronic bronchitis. As a rubefacient [counterirritant on skin] and anodyne it is much employed in cataplasms [poultices] and fomentations [warm, moist compresses] for the relief of colic, muscular rheumatism, neuralgia, toothache, headache, etc. The infusion is of use in recent cases of relaxation of the uvula, and of aphonia [loss of voice] from a similar condition of the larynx. [<i>The National Dispensatory,</i> 5th Edition, 1896]
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
topic: label: Subject
content: Diarrhea Drugs
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ZZ.RSN81533V06
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Ginger,Oleoresin of
label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical
label: Other Terms
content: Ginger,Oleoresin of; Pharmaceuticals; Drugs; Liquid
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: oleoresina zingiberis (Ginger) (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cork (lid material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (label material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/4 in x 1 3/8 in; 9.525 cm x 3.4925 cm