Colocynth Compound
date: label: Date made
content: 1928
name: label: maker
content: Parke, Davis and Company
notes: label: Description
content: One of sixty-seven (67) specimens of crude drugs and pharmaceutical preparations of aloes, camphor, ginger, and rhubarb donated by Parke, Davis and Company in 1928 for the pharmacy exhibits. The museum curator solicited these preparations for an exhibit of medicines “telling the story of the cultivation, collection, marketing, and medicinal use of well-known and extensively used drugs.” The official drugs were exhibited along with examples of the crude botanical drug and photographs of the cultivation and processing of aloes, camphor, ginger, and rhubarb. The curator requested that the specimens be supplied in the company’s regular stock containers whenever possible rather than using the uniform display bottles often employed in the pharmacy exhibits. "The idea is to give the visiting public information concerning the numerous official medicines which contain the drugs in question. For this purpose, I think a variety in the style of the containers is desirable."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Michigan, Detroit
label: Associated Place
content: United States: Michigan, Detroit
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Parke, Davis and Company; Accession 101594 (1928)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-02388
label: catalog number
content: M-02388
label: accession number
content: 101594
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Colocynth Compound
label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical
label: Other Terms
content: Colocynth Compound; Pharmaceuticals; Drugs; Non-Liquid
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: colocynth, powdered extract, 16 gm/100 gm; aloes, 50 gm/100 gm; cardamon seed, powdered, 5 gm/100 gm; ipomoea resin, powdered, 14 gm/100 gm; soap, powdered, 15 gm/100 gm, (drug ingredients)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/2 in x 2 1/4 in; 16.51 cm x 5.715 cm