Emetine
name: label: user
content: John King, M.D.
notes: label: Description
content: Glass specimen jar containing a smaller glass vial resting on cotton wool. Paper label on the specimen jar reads: "Emetine / Very rare specimen - Probably oldest type in existence. Labeled by Dr. John King." (Emetine is an extract of the ipecacuanha root (ipecac). In medicine it was used to stimulate vomiting.)
label: Description
content: This specimen is part of a collection of instruments and materials belonging to John King (1813-1893), a leading physician of the Eclectic school of medicine. The donor, John Uri Lloyd, was King's protege.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John Uri Lloyd; Accession 83422 (1924)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-02039
label: catalog number
content: M-02039
label: accession number
content: 83422
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Crude Drug
label: Other Terms
content: Crude Drug; Materia Medica; Drugs; Vegetable
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: emetine (overall material)