Capsicum
date: label: date made
content: 1850-1900
notes: label: Description
content: The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer, or as found in contemporary medical literature, are:
label: Description
content: Capsicum is of use in enabling feeble stomachs to digest food, as is shown by its efficacy in atonic dyspepsia. Freely taken it is said to cure hemorrhoids, as black pepper, and still other stimulants, are known to do. It perhaps sometimes cures intermittent fever, and in obstinate cases is a good stimulant to conjoin with quinia. In common with other agents of the same nature, it tends to prevent or to relieve sea-sickness. In delirium tremens it is beneficial by enabling the patient to retain and digest food; indeed, we have seldom in this disease found it necessary to employ other internal remedies than a strong soup well seasoned with red pepper. As a local stimulant it is particularly efficient in tonsillitis. The simple form may sometimes be arrested in its first stage by a capsicum gargle; and in the sore throat of scarlet fever and in diphtheria, no application is so efficient as a strong gargle or wash made with this substance. A plaster made of Burgundy pitch, with which powdered capsicum, or its oleoresin, has been incorporated, is a very efficient stimulant in cases of chronic lumbago and other forms of muscular rheumatism, neuralgia, etc. [<i>The National Dispensatory,</i> 4th Edition, 1880]
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Indigestion & Nausea Drugs
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Antibody Initiative: Infectious Disease, Allergy, and Immunotherapy Collections
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Sidney Snowden Stabler
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.163863.029
label: accession number
content: 163863
label: catalog number
content: 163863.029
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Crude Drug
label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical
label: Other Terms
content: Crude Drug; Materia Medica; Drugs; Powder
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: capsicum (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cork (lid material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (label material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 1 1/4 in x 7/8 in; 7.62 cm x 3.175 cm x 2.2225 cm