Acetylsalicylic Acid Tablets

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maker: Parke, Davis and Company

Description: One of forty-two (42) specimens illustrating the manufacture of pills and tablets donated by Parke, Davis and Company in 1932 for the pharmacy exhibits. The specimens illustrate the ingredients and intermediate steps in the production of Compound Cathartic Pills (see M-03184 through M-03193) and Pepsin, Bismuth and Charcoal Compressed Tablets (see M-03194 through M-03203). The specimens were exhibited along with photographs of the process from the Parke Davis plant in Detroit, Michigan, and several examples of packaged pill and tablet products. This exhibit replaced a 1921 exhibit on the same subject provided by El Lilly and Company (see accession 66991).
Location: Currently not on view

Credit Line: Gift of Parke, Davis and Company; Accession 118114 (1932)

Date made: 1932

ID Number: MG.M-03212
catalog number: M-03212
accession number: 118114

Object Name: Pharmaceutical; otc preparation
Other Terms: Pharmaceutical; Pharmaceuticals; Drugs; Liquid

Measurements: overall: 4 1/8 in x 1 3/4 in x 1 1/8 in; 10.4775 cm x 4.445 cm x 2.8575 cm

place made: United States: Michigan, Detroit

See more items in: Medicine and Science: Medicine; Balm of America

Data Source: National Museum of American History

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nmah_718803

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ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID TABLETS

National Museum of American History

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Record ID: nmah_718803