Pure Castor Oil
date: label: date made
content: ca 1940s
name: label: distributor
content: Central Drug Company
label: maker
content: Central Drug 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:
label: Description
content: For constipation, diarrhea, dysentery, as a demulcent in eye burns. Also used in hair tonics. [<i>The Merck Index,</i> Fifth Edition, 1940]
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Virginia, Wytheville
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 Kenneth E. Hall
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.0331.080
label: catalog number
content: 1993.0331.080
label: accession number
content: 1993.0331
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical
label: Other Terms
content: Pharmaceutical; Liquid
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: castor oil (drug material)
label: Physical Description
content: yellow (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (lid material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (label material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 18.5 cm x 6.5 cm x 4 cm; 7 5/16 in x 2 9/16 in x 1 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/8 in x 2 5/8 in x 1 5/8 in; 18.0975 cm x 6.6675 cm x 4.1275 cm