Pharmacy Stock Bottle: P. Nux Vom. (Pulverized Nux Vomica)
date: label: date made
content: 1862-1867
name: label: maker
content: W. N. Walton
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: The action and uses of nux vomica are identical in kind with those of strychnine [used for paralysis, as an ecbolic [labor inducer], prolapsus of the rectum, retention or incontinence of urine, sexual impotence, abortion, postpartum hemorrhage, saccharine diabetes, night-sweats in phthisis]. It may be mentioned in this place, however, that the action of nux vomica is too variable to render it eligible as a medicine. [<i>The National Dispensatory,</i> 5th Edition, 1896]
label: Description
content: Glass bottle with "PATD SEPT 23D, 1862, W. N. WALTON" embossed on the bottom.
label: Description
content: Ref: William N. Walton, “Improvement in Attaching Labels to Bottles,” U.S. Patent 36,542 (Sept. 23, 1862).
label: Description
content: Ref: George Griffenhagen and Mary Bogard, History of Drug Containers and Their Labels (Madison, Wi., 1999), pp. 63-65.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
topic: label: Subject
content: Laxatives
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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: Gift of Ida C. Williams in memory of Dr. Lawrence S. Williams
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-03932.01
label: catalog number
content: M-03932.01
label: accession number
content: 134457
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bottle
label: Object Name
content: bottle, apothecary
label: Object Name
content: bottle, pharmacy shelfware
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: nux vomica (poison nut) (drug active ingredients)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 5/8 in x 2 in; 14.2875 cm x 5.08 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/2 in x 2 in; 13.97 cm x 5.08 cm