Bottle
notes: label: Description
content: Greenish glass bottle with embossed inscriptions that read "SCHENCK'S / PULMONIC / SYRUP / PHILADA." Tha syrup was on the market by 1865. In 1913, the A.M.A. reported that it was “essentially a wintergreen-flavored mixture of saccharin syrups.” In 1914, an attorney for the Southern District of New York, seized and condemned several cases of the pulmonic syrup, claiming they were misbranded in violation of the federal Pure Food and Drug Act.
label: Description
content: Ref: Full page ad for J. H. Schenck’s Pulmonic Syrup in New York Times (Nov. 18, 1865), p. 3.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
setName: label: See more items in
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.65.2072
label: accession number
content: 256516
label: catalog number
content: 65.2072
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bottle
label: Object Name
content: otc preparation
label: Other Terms
content: Bottle; Containers
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: green (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: glass, ?, transparent (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: green ware (overall popular color name)
label: Physical Description
content: 8-sided (overall shape)
label: Physical Description
content: narrow mouth (overall shape)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 3/8 in x 3 in x 3 in; 18.7325 cm x 7.62 cm x 7.62 cm