Milprem
date: label: Date made
content: c. 1970
label: patent date (meprobamate)
content: 1955-11-22
label: patent date (hormone extract)
content: 1947-10-21
name: label: collection
content: Reid Drugstore
label: maker
content: Wallace Laboratories
notes: label: Description
content: Round, amber glass bottle with black, metal screw-cap. White, dark red, and yellow paper label. Bottle contains 60 red tablets.
label: Description
content: Indication/use: "Useful in the management of the menopause, where both physiological and emotional symptoms are present."
label: Description
content: The tablets contain (1) Meprobamate, a minor tranquilizer: US Patent US2724720A, 1955-11-22, by Frank M Berger for Carter Products Inc. Meprobamate was marketed as Miltown by Wallace Laboratories (subsidiary of Carter Products) and Equanil by Wyeth;
label: Description
content: and (2) Conjugated estrogens, a hormone extract from pregnant mare's urine and stallion urine: Patent US2429398A, 1947-10-21, "... the applicants have prepared a water soluble therapeutic substance containing substantially all the water-soluble oestrogenic activity of the urine of the pregnant mare and of stallion urine and also possessing other biological activity. This substance has high oral activity in the treatment of menopausal conditions, is therapeutically nontoxic, and is stable."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, New Brunswick
topic: label: Subject
content: Women's Health
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: 1984.0351.168
label: accession number
content: 1984.0351
label: patent number
content: US2429398A
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0351.168
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical
label: Object Name
content: hormone product
label: Other Terms
content: ?; Pharmaceuticals; Drugs
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: meprobromate ("Miltown"), 400 mg per tablet; conjugated estrogens (equinine), 0.4 mg per tablet (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (cap material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8.3 cm x 4.6 cm; 3 1/4 in x 1 13/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/8 in x 1 7/8 in; 8.5725 cm x 4.7625 cm