Object Details
- Pfeiffer Chemical Company
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer, or as found in contemporary medical literature, are:
- For constipation and biliousness. Relieves sick and bilious headache.
- This object is one of over 700 items from Glaser’s Drug Store of Sayre, Pennsylvania. In 1921, Simon Glaser (1860-1936), an immigrant from Russian Poland, established the drug store at 121 West Packer Avenue in Sayre, PA. His son, Sidney Glaser (1899-1992), soon joined him in the business and continued to operate the store until 1961. After retiring, Sidney Glaser retained thousands of products dating from the 1920s – 1960s, including pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, personal care products, and vitamins, and donated many of them to the Smithsonian in 1985.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Sidney Glaser
- 1906-1917
- ID Number
- 1985.0481.051
- catalog number
- 1985.0481.051
- accession number
- 1985.0481
- Object Name
- otc preparation
- Object Type
- Drugs
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- cascara sagrada (drug active ingredients)
- Measurements
- overall: 5 cm x 4 cm x 1.1 cm; 1 15/16 in x 1 9/16 in x 7/16 in
- overall: 1 5/8 in x 2 in x 1/2 in; 4.1275 cm x 5.08 cm x 1.27 cm
- place made
- United States: Missouri, Saint Louis
- United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Botanical Medicine
- Balm of America
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Laxatives
- Pain & Neuralgia Drugs
- Record ID
- nmah_209904
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a0-dec3-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
