Pyramidon Tablets
name: label: collection
content: Reid Drugstore
label: maker
content: Winthrop Chemical Company
notes: label: Description
content: Cardboard box with labels that read in part “Pyramidon / REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. & CANADA / 1O Tablets / 5 grains / Brand of / Aminopyrine” and “WINTHROP CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC. / NEW YORK, N.Y. WINDSOR, ONT.”
label: Description
content: Pyramidon, a remedy against fever, rheumatism, and neuralgia, was developed in Germany, introduced to commerce in 1896., and received a U.S. patent in 1897. The H. A. Metz Laboratories, Inc., obtained the right to sell pyramidon in the United States, in 1912, and applied for a trademark on the term in 1923.
label: Description
content: Ref: Friedrich Stoltz, “Pyrazalon Compound and Process of Making Same,” U.S. Patent 579,412 (March 23, 1897), assigned to the Farbwerke, Vormals Meister, Lucius & Brüning.
label: Description
content: “SUE OVER ‘PYRAMIDON’,” New York Times (Feb. 9, 1930), p. N1.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: Canada: Ontarian, Windsor
label: Place Made
content: United States: New York, New York City
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Blanche E. Reid
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0351.130
label: accession number
content: 1984.0351
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0351.130
objectType: label: Object Name
content: otc preparation
label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical
label: Other Terms
content: otc preparation; ?; Patent Medicines; Drugs
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 cm x 1.5 cm x 1.5 cm; 2 3/8 in x 9/16 in x 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/8 in x 2 1/2 in x 5/8 in; 1.5875 cm x 6.35 cm x 1.5875 cm