Squibb's Cream of Tartar [Potassium bitartrate]
name: label: maker
content: E. R. Squibb and Sons
notes: label: Description
content: Yellow metal tin with brown print and paper seal across lid. Printed on back of tin: "Squibb's Cream of Tartar is an exceptionally clean and extremely pure product, specially intended for medicinal use. Acts as a laxative, aperient and diuretic.
label: Description
content: Dose: 1 to 3 teaspoonfuls dissolved in water, with or without sugar. Sold through druggists only."
label: Description
content: One of seven pharmaceuticals donated by E. R. Squibb & Sons for an exhibition "telling the story of the collection, marketing, and medicinal use of well-known and extensively used drugs." The curator requested examples of preparations of iron and potassium, and Squibb provided six specimens of potassium salts and one specimen of an iron preparation.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Brooklyn
label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, New Brunswick
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of E. R. Squibb & Sons
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-02240
label: catalog number
content: M-02240
label: accession number
content: 98300
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 2 5/8 in x 1 7/8 in; 5.08 cm x 6.6675 cm x 4.7625 cm