Laxative Barker N. F., 100 Soluble Gelatin-Coated Pills
date: label: date made
content: ca 1928
name: label: maker
content: Sharp and Dohme
notes: label: Description
content: This item is one of fifteen (15) specimens of official preparations of nux vomica (strychnine) donated to the museum in 1928 by Sharp and Dohme. These specimens replaced earlier specimens donated by the company and on exhibit since 1919. Replenishing exhibits with new specimens, and returning old specimens to the donor, was common practice in the museum's medicine and pharmacy collections in the early- to-mid-1900s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Sharp and Dohme
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-02479
label: catalog number
content: M-02479
label: accession number
content: 102228
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical
label: Other Terms
content: Pharmaceuticals; Drugs; Non-Liquid
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/8 in x 1 3/4 in x 1 1/4 in; 10.4775 cm x 4.445 cm x 3.175 cm