Object Details
- Description
- Greenish glass bottle with embossed inscriptions that read "SCHENCK'S / PULMONIC / SYRUP / PHILADA." The syrup was on the market by 1865. The A.M.A. reported in 1913 that it was “essentially a wintergreen-flavored mixture of saccharin syrups.” In 1914, an attorney for the Southern District of New York, seized and condemned several cases of Schenck’s pulmonic syrup, claiming they were misbranded in violation of the federal Pure Food and Drug Act.
- Ref: Full page ad for J. H. Schenck’s Pulmonic Syrup in New York Times (Nov. 18, 1865), p. 3.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- MG.65.2073
- accession number
- 256516
- catalog number
- 65.2073
- Object Name
- Bottle
- otc preparation
- Other Terms
- Bottle; Containers
- Physical Description
- green (overall color)
- glass, ?, transparent (overall material)
- green ware (overall popular color name)
- 8-sided (overall shape)
- narrow mouth (overall shape)
- Measurements
- overall: 7 3/8 in x 3 in x 3 in; 18.7325 cm x 7.62 cm x 7.62 cm
- place made
- United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Balm of America
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_728309
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-6536-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
