Quinine Alkaloid Powder U.S.P.
date: label: date made
content: ca 1922
name: label: maker
content: Powers Weightman Rosengarten 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: Antimalarial and tonic. For use as an ingredient of preparations in which it remains undissolved and therefore tasteless [<i>Remington's Practice of Pharmacy,</i> Seventh Edition, 1926]
label: Description
content: One of thirteen (13) specimens of medicinal alkaloids and alkaloidal salts donated by the Powers-Weightman-Rosengarten Company (P-W-R) in 1922 for the pharmacy exhibits. Medicinal alkaloids and alkaloidal salts are physiologically active chemicals derived from plants. In the exhibit, specimens of medicinal alkaloids were displayed alongside specimens of the crude drugs and powdered drugs from which they are extracted.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: Subject
content: Fever & Chill Drugs
label: Subject
content: Catarrh, Cough & Cold Drugs
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Botanical Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Powers-Weightman-Rosengarten Co.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-01527
label: catalog number
content: M-01527
label: accession number
content: 67989
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical
label: Other Terms
content: Pharmaceuticals; Drugs; Non-Liquid
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wax paper (packaging material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (label material)
label: Physical Description
content: Quinine Alkaloid (drug active ingredients)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 5/8 in x 1 1/2 in; 9.2075 cm x 3.81 cm