Dr. Hobson's Compound Laxative Cascara Tablets
date: label: date made
content: 1906-1917
name: label: maker
content: Pfeiffer Chemical 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 and biliousness. Relieves sick and bilious headache.
label: Description
content: This object is one of over 700 items from Glaser’s Drug Store of Sayre, Pennsylvania. In 1921, Simon Glaser (1860-1936), an immigrant from Russian Poland, established the drug store at 121 West Packer Avenue in Sayre, PA. His son, Sidney Glaser (1899-1992), soon joined him in the business and continued to operate the store until 1961. After retiring, Sidney Glaser retained thousands of products dating from the 1920s – 1960s, including pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, personal care products, and vitamins, and donated many of them to the Smithsonian in 1985.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Missouri, Saint Louis
label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: Subject
content: Laxatives
label: Subject
content: Pain & Neuralgia Drugs
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Botanical Medicine
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content: Balm of America
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Sidney Glaser
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0481.051
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0481.051
label: accession number
content: 1985.0481
objectType: label: Object Name
content: otc preparation
label: Object Type
content: Drugs
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cascara sagrada (drug active ingredients)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 cm x 4 cm x 1.1 cm; 1 15/16 in x 1 9/16 in x 7/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 5/8 in x 2 in x 1/2 in; 4.1275 cm x 5.08 cm x 1.27 cm