Extract Wild Indigo, (Baptisia Tinctoria), Rattle Bush, Horse-Fly Weed, Sophora Tinctoria
date: label: date made
content: ca1880
name: label: maker
content: Parke, Davis and Company
notes: label: Description
content: Round, green glass bottle with paper labels and cork closure. Properties and Formula printed on label on back. "The Calvert Litho Co. Detroit" is printed along the bottom edge of the trademark label. The company trademark includes an inter-twined "P D & Co" and the words "Medicamenta Vera" in a circular border. "P D & CO / 79" embossed on bottom of bottle. The bottle approx. 60% full of liquid.
label: Description
content: The medicinal properties of extract of wild indigo as printed on the label:
label: Description
content: "Purgative, emetic, astringent and antiseptic. Used principally on account of its antiseptic virtues. Internally it is said to be efficient in the atonic varieties of rheumatism, pneumonia and dysentery, in scarlatina, typhus and all cases when there is a tendency to septicaemia. Externally it is used as a wash for gangrenous and other ill-conditioned ulcers, scrofulous and syphilitic sores, etc., as an injection in fetid leucorrhoea, fetid discharges from the ears, etc., as a fomentation for inflammations tending to gangrene, ulcers, tumors, etc."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Michigan, Detroit
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.293320.1411
label: catalog number
content: 293320.1411
label: accession number
content: 293320
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pharmaceutical
label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical
label: Other Terms
content: Pharmaceutical; Pharmaceuticals
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12.4 cm x 4.9 cm; 4 7/8 in x 1 15/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 7/8 in x 2 in; 12.3825 cm x 5.08 cm