K. & M. Effervescent Bromo Caffeine
date: label: date made
content: 1920-1940
name: label: maker
content: Keasbey and Mattison Company
notes: label: Description
content: The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer, or as found in contemporary medical literature, are:
label: Description
content: For brain workers. This delightful effervescent salt is an almost certain remedy for the relief of the nervous headache resulting from overtaxed mental energy or excitement, acute attacks of indigestion, the depression following alcoholic excesses, the supra-sensitiveness of chloral, morphia, and opium habitues, and with ladies the headache and backache of neurasthenia, hysteria, dysmenorrhoea and kindred disorders. A great boon and prompt source of relief in almost all cases of headache and distress attending mental fatigue and physical exhaustion, it commends itself especially to physicians, teachers, clergyman, lawyers, merchants and others following professions or pursuits requiring nerve energy subjecting to mental strain.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Ambler
topic: label: Subject
content: Indigestion & Nausea Drugs
label: Subject
content: Women's Health Products
label: Subject
content: Nerve & Brain Drugs
label: Subject
content: Women's Health
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Botanical Medicine
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content: Balm of America
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Gary P. and Sandra Baden
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0798.010
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0798.010
label: accession number
content: 1979.0798
objectType: label: Object Name
content: otc preparation
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: guarana (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: hydrobromic acid (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: caffeine (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (container material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 3/8 in x 2 1/8 in; 16.1925 cm x 5.3975 cm