Bayer Aspirin
date: label: date made
content: ca 1913
name: label: maker
content: Bayer Company
notes: label: Description
content: This box of 1 ounce Aspirin dates to after 1913 when Bayer established its New York office at 117 Hudson Street. The box bears the “Bayer Cross” logo with the text “Registered Trademark/1 Ounce/Aspirin/(Monoaceticacidester of Salicylic Acid).”
label: Description
content: Bayer originally marketed its trademarked Aspirin in powder form only to the medical profession and drug firms, to distinguish the product from patent medicines sold directly to the public. On this package the name "Aspirin" is followed by "Monoaceticacidester of Salicylic Acid," the generic name Bayer provided for the product. Aspirin already had a fairly simple chemical name, acetyl salicylic acid or ASA, but the more complicated generic name helped Bayer maintain its monopoly on this lucrative new drug. The brand name “Aspirin” proved much easier to remember, and it was soon in popular use for all ASA products.
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content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0883.039
label: accession number
content: 1978.0883
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0883.039
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical
label: Other Terms
content: Aspirin; Patent Medicines; Drugs; Non-Liquid
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: acetylsalicylic acid (drug active ingredient)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/4 in x 1 1/2 in x 1 1/2 in; 6.985 cm x 3.81 cm x 3.81 cm