Potassium Nitrate Merck, U.S.P. X Crystals, 1 Lb.
date: label: date made
content: ca 1927
name: label: maker
content: Merck and Company
notes: label: Description
content: One of 22 specimens donated to the museum in 1928 by Merck & Company for an exhibition "telling the story of the collection, marketing, and medicinal use of well-known and extensively used drugs." The curator requested examples of official preparations of iron and potassium, and Merck provided 8 specimens of potassium preparations and 14 specimens of an iron preparations.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Merck & Co
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-02363
label: catalog number
content: M-02363
label: accession number
content: 99922
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pharmaceutical
label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical
label: Other Terms
content: Pharmaceutical; Pharmaceutical; Pharmaceutical; Pharmaceutical
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 5/8 in x 3 1/8 in; 11.7475 cm x 7.9375 cm