K. & M. Effervescent Bromo Caffeine
date: label: Date made
content: after 1920 before 1938
name: label: maker
content: Keasbey & Mattison Company
notes: label: Description
content: The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: "Combining the active principle of Guarana with excess of combined Hydrobromic Acid, this preparation more than equals one grain of Hydrobromate of Caffeine in each heaping teaspoonful. This delightful effervescent salt is an almost certain remedy for the relief of the nervous headaches resulting from overtaxed mental energy or excitement, acute attacks of indigestions, the depression following alcoholic excesses, the supra-sensitiveness of chloral, morphia and opium habitues, and with ladies the headache and backache of neurasthenia, hysteria, dysmennorrhea, and kindred disorders. A great boon and prompt source of relief in almost all cases of headache and distress attending mental fatigue and physical exhaustion, it commends itself especially to Physicians, Teachers, Clergymen, Lawyers, Merchants, and others following professions or pursuits requiring nerve energy or subjecting to mental strain."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Ambler
label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Nerve & Brain Drugs
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Balm of America
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0883.011.A
label: accession number
content: 1978.0883
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0883.011.A
objectType: label: Object Name
content: otc preparation
label: Other Terms
content: Patent Medicines; Drugs
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (packaging material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cork (lid material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (inside material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 5/8 in x 1 5/8 in; 9.2075 cm x 4.1275 cm