Riodine, Iode Organique Assimilable (Organic derivative of Iodine)
date: label: date made
content: ca 1914
name: label: maker
content: Phamacie Astier
notes: label: Description
content: Three (3) brown glass bottles with cork stoppers. Bottles are wrapped in green and red patterned paper with a green, red, and white paper label on the front side. The top of the wrapper is torn off on all three specimens revealing the top of the bottle inside and part of the paper insert which is wrapped around each bottle. One bottle has a red, white, and blue shield-shaped paper seal on the back: "U. S. Customs / Panama Pacific International Exhibition / Exhibit / Serial No. 1697 / case No. P A 3 / Lot No. 18 bottles"
label: Description
content: Indications: Cardio-vascular and chronic respiratory diseases, scrofula, lymphatism, obesity, and in all cases requiring the use of ieither iodine or iodides, especially when these disagree with the patient. [1917 advert. The Lancet]
label: Description
content: Dose: 2 to 6 pearls (capsules) per day, to be taken after eating
label: Description
content: Maker: Pharmacie Astier, 72 Avenue Kleber, Paris.
label: Description
content: Riodine, chemical formula (C18-H33-O3-1H)3-C3-H5, is an organic derivative of iodine.
label: Description
content: This item is part of a collection of pharmaceutical products exhibited by the French companies, Astier Pharmacie and Clin et Cie., at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition held in San Francisco, California, in 1915. Following the close of exhibition, the objects were donated to the Smithsonian by the French Commission to the exposition.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
topic: label: associated subject
content: Obesity
label: related event
content: Panama-Pacific International Exposition
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Balm of America
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.59672.03
label: accession number
content: 59672
label: catalog number
content: 59672.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: otc preparation
label: Other Terms
content: Pharmaceuticals; Drugs; Non-Liquid
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall, each: 4 3/8 in x 1 7/8 in x 1 1/8 in; 11.1125 cm x 4.7625 cm x 2.8575 cm