Cantharides
date: label: date made
content: ca 1920
notes: label: Description
content: One of seven (7) specimens of official preparations of medicines derived from the “animal kingdom” donated by McKesson and Robbins, Inc. in 1920 for the pharmacy exhibits. The exhibit of “Animal Drugs” included the official preparations of the U. S. Pharmacopoeia (U.S.P.) and the National Formulary (N.F.) along with pictures of the animals from which they were obtained.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift McKesson and Robbins
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-00699
label: catalog number
content: M-00699
label: accession number
content: 64762
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pharmaceutical
label: Other Terms
content: Pharmaceutical; Crude Drug; Materia Medica; Drugs; Animal; Body
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cantharides (overall material)