Absinthium, U.S.P. (Wormwood. Absinthe.)
date: label: date made
content: 1901-1909
name: label: maker
content: Department of Agriculture. Bureau of Chemistry. Division of Drugs
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 use as a stimulant tonic. Employed in atonic and especially flatulent dyspepsia, and in various conditions of the system in which local disorders are maintained by general debility of the functions, and particularly by that of the digestive apparatus. It sometimes is used successfully to remove lumbricoid worms. Externally, a decoction of wormwood may be applied as a dressing to unhealthy and indolent ulcers. [<i>The National Dispensatory,</i> 5th Edition, 1896]
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
topic: label: Subject
content: Indigestion & Nausea Drugs
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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: United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Chemistry, Division of Drugs
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.143336
label: accession number
content: 49711
label: catalog number
content: 143336
objectType: label: Object Name
content: crude drug
label: Other Terms
content: crude drug; Materia Medica; Drugs; Vegetable; Flower
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: absinth (wormwood) (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (label material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (lid material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 cm x 8 cm; 5 29/32 in x 3 5/32 in