Belladonna Leaves, Fluid Ext. of (Fluidextractum Belladonnae Foliorum)
date: label: date made
content: ca 1926
name: label: maker
content: Parke, Davis and Company
notes: label: Description
content: The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer, or as found in contemporary medical literature, are: For use as an anodyne [pain relief], locally in neuralgia and nerve pains; as an antispasmodic, for checking secretions, as in coryza, night sweats, and excessive milk; also, as a narcotic and mydriatic [dilating the pupil]. [<i>Remington's Practice of Pharmacy,</i> Seventh Edition, 1926]
label: Description
content: One of six pharmaceuticals in display bottles donated to the museum in 1926 by the Parke, Davis and Company. The curator requested these specimens for use in an exhibition of official drugs added to the U.S. Pharmacopoeia,Tenth Revision (U.S.P. X), made official January 1,1926.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Michigan, Detroit
topic: label: Subject
content: Pain & Neuralgia Drugs
label: Subject
content: Respiratory & Asthma Drugs
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Botanical Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Parke, Davis and Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-02179
label: catalog number
content: M-02179
label: accession number
content: 93279
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical
label: Other Terms
content: Pharmaceuticals; Drugs; Liquid
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: belladonna leaves (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (label material)
label: Physical Description
content: cork (lid material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (packaging material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/4 in x 1 3/4 in x 1 3/4 in; 13.335 cm x 4.445 cm x 4.445 cm