Kola Granulee, Soluble, P. Astier
date: label: Date made
content: c. 1900
name: label: maker
content: Phamacie Astier
notes: label: Description
content: Cylindrical glass bottle with metal screw-on cap and paper, wrap-around labels. Label on neck of bottle is blue with black print, and has images of medals awarded. Main label is brown with black and red print. Bottle is full of contents / unopened.
label: Description
content: Maker: Pharmacie Astier, 72 Avenue Kleber, Paris
label: Description
content: Dose/Directions: Deux Cuillerees a Cafe par jour dans du vin ou dans tout autre liquide aqueux (Two teaspoons per day in wine or any other aqueous liquid)
label: Description
content: Indications per label: aliment d'epargne; anti-neurasthenique; regulator du coeur; excitant du systeme musculare (anti-neurasthenic; heart regulator; muscular system stimulant)
label: Description
content: This item is part of a collection of pharmaceutical products exhibited by the French companies, Astier Pharmacie and Clin et Cie., at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition held in San Francisco, California, in 1915. Following the close of exhibition, the objects were donated to the Smithsonian by the French Commission to the exposition.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
topic: label: related event
content: Panama-Pacific International Exposition
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.59672.12
label: maker number
content: 341184
label: accession number
content: 59672
label: catalog number
content: 59672.12
objectType: label: Object Name
content: otc preparation
label: Other Terms
content: Pharmaceuticals; Drugs; Non-Liquid
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: caffeine; theobromine; rouge de kola (red kola); tannin (drug active ingredients)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 3/4 in x 1 3/4 in; 12.065 cm x 4.445 cm