Rhubarb Fingers
date: label: date made
content: ca 1920
name: label: maker
content: Eli Lilly and Company
notes: label: Description
content: One Pound (450 Gm.) box of Rhubarb Fingers. Each compressed bar of powdered rhubarb is embossed with LILLY name:
label: Description
content: Description from Hand Book of Pharmacy and Therapeutics, Eli Lilly & Company, 1920, page 193: "Rhubarb Fingers. Aperient, laxative, stomachic and astringent. These fingers consist of pure Rhubarb with just sufficient adhesive material to enable them to retain their shape. They have proven of value in hepatic disturbances, constipation, diarrhea, etc., small portions being taken at frequent intervals. Supplied in pound boxes (Ninety Fingers in each pound)."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Indiana, Indianapolis
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-11470
label: catalog number
content: M-11470
label: accession number
content: 260557
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Crude Drug
label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical
label: Other Terms
content: Crude Drug; Materia Medica; Drugs; Vegetable
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: rhubarb fingers (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/4 in x 6 3/8 in x 3 in; 5.715 cm x 16.1925 cm x 7.62 cm