Castor Oil, Cold Expressed
date: label: date made
content: ca 1840-1855
name: label: maker
content: E. Fuller Apothocary
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: For use as a mild cathartic. From its mildness it is also especially adapted to diseases attended with irritation or inflammation of the bowels, as colic, diarrhoea, dysentery, and enteritis. [<i>The Dispensatory of the United States of America,</i> 1st Edition, 1933]
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maine, Augusta
topic: label: Subject
content: Laxatives
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Botanical Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.293320.1400
label: catalog number
content: 293320.1400
label: accession number
content: 293320
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical
label: Other Terms
content: Pharmaceuticals
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (label material)
label: Physical Description
content: castor oil (drug active ingredient)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6.6 cm x 21 cm; 2 19/32 in x 8 9/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 3/8 in x 2 5/8 in; 21.2725 cm x 6.6675 cm