Ritalin Hydrochloride, 20 mg, 6 tablets
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1967
name: label: maker
content: Ciba Pharmaceutical Company
notes: label: Description
content: Physician's Sample. Orange and white cardboard box. Stylized profile of a face (with an expression signifying lethargy or depression) on one side. Box contains an amber glass bottle with white, green and black label and black metal screw cap. Paper insert, printed February 1967, copyright 1965.
label: Description
content: Indications: Mild stimulant and antidepressant . . . effective in overcoming fatigue and mild depressive states; lethargy due to illness, convalescence, menopause, senility, etc.; drug-induced lethargy; narcolepsy. . . . also improves the withdrawn, apathetic, and negative behavior of psychoneurotics and increases response to psychotherapy. It is useful in treating functional behavior problems in children (hyperactivity, stuttering etc.). Parenterally, it hastens recovery from anesthesia, overcomes sedation in the newborn, and significantly helps in treating acute overdosages of barbiturates, alcohol, and other sedative drugs. [as stated in product insert]
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Summit
topic: label: Subject
content: Psychiatric Drug
label: Subject
content: Disabilities
label: Subject
content: Depression, Mental
label: Subject
content: Menopause
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Ben Posen
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2004.3012.32
label: catalog number
content: 2004.3012.32
label: nonaccession number
content: 2004.3012
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical
label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical, physician's sample
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: methylphenidate hydrochloride (drug active ingredients)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 cm x 5.1 cm x 3.4 cm; 1 3/16 in x 2 in x 1 5/16 in
label: Measurements
content: box: 1 1/8 in x 2 1/8 in x 1 1/8 in; 2.8575 cm x 5.3975 cm x 2.8575 cm
label: Measurements
content: bottle: 1 3/4 in x 1 in x 1 in; 4.445 cm x 2.54 cm x 2.54 cm