Pituitrin (O) (Obstetrical)
date: label: date made
content: before 1924
name: label: maker
content: Parke, Davis and Company
notes: label: Description
content: Gray and white cardboard box with black printing containing six small, white rectangular boxes with black printing. Each holds 1cc cylindrical glass ampoules with white paper labels. Use: "To stimulate uterine contraction in cases of inertia or when labor is delayed by other than mechanical causes. Also as a hemostatic heart stimulant, diuretic and in post-operative paresis of the bladder and colon." The Pituitrin was part of a midwife's kit from Buffalo, NY, about 1920.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Michigan, Detroit
topic: label: Subject
content: Medicine
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: Midwife Kit
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift from Joseph Badlotto in memory of Rosa Bonfante and her daughter Mary Bonfante Chirchirillo Badlotto
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.0128.17
label: accession number
content: 2012.0128
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0128.17
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical
label: Object Name
content: biological
label: Object Name
content: midwife's kit
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (packaging material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (label material)
label: Physical Description
content: pituitrin (drug active ingredients)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 1 5/8 in x 1 1/8 in; 8.89 cm x 4.1275 cm x 2.8575 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9.25 cm x 4.25 cm x 4 cm; 3 21/32 in x 1 11/16 in x 1 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: part: ampoule box: 5.75 cm x 1.25 cm x 1.25 cm; 2 1/4 in x 1/2 in x 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: part: ampoule: 5.25 cm x 1 cm; 2 1/16 in x 13/32 in