Theonesin Tablets, Physican's Sample
date: label: date made
content: ca 1958
label: trademark registered (THEONESIN)
content: 1957-07-23
name: label: maker
content: Crookes-Barnes Laboratories
notes: label: Description
content: Physician's Sample. Blue paper folder, with image of a nude woman on the front, and the text: "IN PREMENSTRUAL TENSION / relief from periodic distress." The packet contains a sheet of 4 individually sealed tablets. The back of the packet has space for the physician's prescription: Date, Patient, and Dosage. Text on the inside includes: "Countless patients accept as a normal consequence of the menstrual cycle a period of bloating, irritability and oversensitivity to frictions, all of which can lead to periodically explosive social relationships ..."
label: Description
content: Theonesin tablets contain theophylline for edema (bloating, water gain), mephenesin, a muscle relaxant, and secobarbital, a sedative. The product was introduced in 1957 by Crookes-Barnes Laboratories.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Wayne, Mountain View
topic: label: Subject
content: Psychiatric Drug
label: Subject
content: Menstruation
label: Subject
content: Women's Health
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Menstruation: Symptom Relief
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mr. James Harvey Young
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0711.73
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0711.73
label: accession number
content: 1989.0711
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: theophylline (overall active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: mephenesin (overall active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: secobarbital (overall active ingredients)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .04 cm x 12.6 cm x 8.6 cm; in x 4 15/16 in x 3 3/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/8 in x 5 in x 1/2 in; 8.5725 cm x 12.7 cm x 1.27 cm