Mycitracin, First Aid Triple Antibiotic Ointment, Physician's Sample
date: label: date made
content: 1966
name: label: maker
content: Upjohn Company
notes: label: Description
content: Folded paper card with a photograph on the front of a hand with the index finger raised and bandaged and the text: "How Infections Start ..." The card holds a foil packet sample of the first aid ointment designed to look like a full tube. The tube graphic is surrounded by pink, blue, and yellow microphotographs of some of the 28 kinds of infectious bacteria that the ointment protects against. Text inside and on the back of the card provides drug information and directions. Copyright 1966 by The Upjohn Company.
label: Description
content: Indications: "To help combat infectious bacteria that may be present on the skin when minor cut or scratch occurs, Upjohn has combined three antibiotics -- bacitracin, neomycin sulfate, and polymyxin B sulfate -- into an ointment that provides the broadest topical protection available against potential infection."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Michigan, Kalamazoo
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0895.175
label: accession number
content: 1981.0895
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0895.175
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical
label: Other Terms
content: Pharmaceuticals; Drugs; Non-Liquid
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bacitracin, 500 units; neomycin sulfate, 5 mg.; polymyxin B sulfate, 5000 units (drug active ingredients)
label: Measurements
content: overall, folded: 4 7/8 in x 2 3/4 in x 1/16 in; 12.3825 cm x 6.985 cm x .15875 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall, open: 4 7/8 in x 5 3/8 in x 1/32 in; 12.3825 cm x 13.6525 cm x .07938 cm