Licorice Powder Compound (Pulvis Glycyrrhizae Compositus)
name: label: maker
content: Sharp and Dohme
notes: label: Description
content: One of nine (9) specimens of “galenical” pharmaceutical preparations donated by Sharp & Dohme in 1930 for the museum’s pharmacy exhibits. The curator solicited these specimens from the company for an “historical exhibit of medicines which have been in more or less universal use for many years and are still official in the United States.” Many of these preparations were named after their originators and the curator intended to include the history and origin of each preparation in the exhibit labels. The term “galenical” usually referred to older, often plant-based, medicines produced from natural ingredients and not synthesized chemically. Galen (AD 129 – c. 216) was a highly influential Greek physician and philosopher whose theories dominated Western medicine until the mid-16th century. The preparations included here are attributed to French, English, or German physicians of the 18th and 19th centuries.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Sharp and Dohme
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-02956
label: catalog number
content: M-02956
label: accession number
content: 112011
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pharmaceutical
label: Other Terms
content: Pharmaceutical; Licorice Powder Compound; Pharmaceuticals; Drugs; Non-Liquid
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: senna, powdered; licorice root, powdered (drug active ingredients)