Rectal Suppositories
date: label: trademark registration date
content: 1925-01-06
label: product introduced
content: 1913
name: label: maker
content: Otis Clapp & Son, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Box of rectal suppositories with an inscription that reads in part “OBTUNDOBULBS” and “OTIS CLAPP & SON, INC.” Otis Clapp (ca. 1820-1886) was a Bostonian, a Swedenborgian, a publisher, and founder (in 1840) of the first homeopathic pharmacy in New England. That firm became Otis Clapp & Son in 1874. Otis Clapp & Son, Inc. advertised Obtundobulbs in the New England Medical Gazette 48 (Dec. 1913); and filed for a trademark on the name in 1924.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
label: place made
content: United States: Rhode Island, Providence
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: John A. Borneman & Sons, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0770.13
label: accession number
content: 1980.0770
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0770.13
objectType: label: Object Name
content: otc preparation, rectal suppositories
label: Other Terms
content: Patent Medicines; Drugs; Non-Liquid
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 2 1/4 in x 1 5/8 in; 2.54 cm x 5.715 cm x 4.1275 cm