Posterior Pituitary Tablets
name: label: maker
content: Armour and Company
notes: label: Description
content: One of 43 specimens of organo-therapeutic products donated to the museum in 1928 by Armour and Company. This material replaced specimens donated in 1918 (accession 162374) for an exhibit on Organotherapy.
label: Description
content: Established in the 1860s, Armour and Company, located in Chicago Illinois, was a leader in the American meatpacking industry. By the 1890s, the company expanded into the pharmaceutical business, developing a wide range of therapeutic products extracted from animal glands and membranes supplied by their slaughterhouses (abattoirs).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Armour and Company, Pharmaceutical Department; Accession 103075 (1928)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-02510
label: catalog number
content: M-02510
label: accession number
content: 103075
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pharmaceutical
label: Other Terms
content: Posterior Pituitary Tablets; Pharmaceutical; Biological Extracts; Drugs; Non-Liquid
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: posterior pituitary substance, 1/10 grain (drug active ingredients)