Pilulae Quiniae Sulphatis
date: label: Date made
content: c. 1860s
label: date made
content: 1861-1864
name: label: maker
content: U.S.A. Medical Purveying Depot
notes: label: Description
content: Tin container with paper label that reads in part: "Prepared at the U.S.A. MED. PURVEYING DEPOT, ASTORIA, L. I." This was prepared for the Union Army during the Civil War.
label: Description
content: Ref: Robert D. Hicks, “‘The Popular Dose with Doctors’: Quinine and the American Civil War,” Distillations (Dec. 7, 2014).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: related event
content: Civil War
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-10439
label: catalog number
content: M-10439
label: accession number
content: 251548
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Container, tin
label: Object Name
content: tins
label: Other Terms
content: Containers, Pill; Quinine, Container; Container, tin; Containers
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cork (stoppers(10) material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, tin (containers(21) material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (label material)
label: Physical Description
content: square (overall shape)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8.4 cm x 3.9 cm x 3.8 cm; 3 5/16 in x 1 9/16 in x 1 1/2 in