Obestat Ty-Med, 100 tablets
date: label: date made
content: 1960s
notes: label: Description
content: Blue and white cardboard box containing one amber glass bottle with white metal screw-on cap and blue and white paper label. Bottle contains green and white tablets (original color). Manufactured by Lemmon Pharmacal Company, Sellersville, pa 18960. Text on label includes: "CAUTION / Federal Law prohibits dispensing without prescription." and "Warning: May be habit forming." Lot number: 7836. "Ty-Med" refers to the Lemmon "timed- release" compounding - the drug was advertised to release gradually over 10-12 hours. Obestat was designed as a once daily tablet for obesity control. The tablets were removed from the market in 1970 two years after a National Academy of Sciences panel found they were neither safe nor effective and the FDA issued a general market recall on thyroid-amphetamine obesity medications.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Sellersville
topic: label: associated subject
content: Obesity
label: Subject
content: Dietary/ Nutritional Supplements & Reducing Aids
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.0472.055
label: catalog number
content: 1993.0472.055
label: accession number
content: 1993.0472
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (packaging material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass; metal; paper (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: methamphetamine hydrochloride, 10 mg; amobarbital, 60 mg.; thyroid, 150 mg. (drug active ingredients)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 1 7/8 in x 1 1/2 in; 8.89 cm x 4.7625 cm x 3.81 cm