Salsinol (Vita), 100 Compressed Tablets
date: label: date made
content: ca 1952
label: trademark registered (SALSINOL)
content: 1952-04-22
name: label: distributors
content: Vita Laboratories
label: maker
content: Vita Laboratories
notes: label: Description
content: Amber glass bottle with paper label and black metal cap. Bottle is unopened and full of Salsinol compressed tablets. Printed on label: "Sole Distributors / VITA LABORATORIES / Pharmaceutical Chemists / Auburn, New York / V1902"
label: Description
content: Salsinol was prescribed for the treatment of arthritis.
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: New York, Auburn
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Sidney Glaser
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0481.174
label: accession number
content: 1985.0481
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0481.174
label: accession number
content: 1985.0481
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical
label: Object Type
content: Drugs
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass; metal (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: sodium salicylate, 0.25 g.; calcium succinate, 0.125 g.; sodium succinate, 0.125 g.; Menadione (Vitamin K), 1.0 mg. (drug (per tablet) active ingredients)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10.4 cm x 4.5 cm x 3 cm; 4 1/8 in x 1 3/4 in x 1 3/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/8 in x 1 7/8 in x 1 1/4 in; 10.4775 cm x 4.7625 cm x 3.175 cm