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Pharmacy stock bottle: Tinct. Stramon. (Tincture Stramonium)

National Museum of American History

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Description
The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer, or as found in contemporary medical literature, are:
For use in epilepsy, hydrophobia [rabies], spasmodic asthma, whooping cough, dysmenorrhoea, retention of urine, hemmorrhoids, fissure and other affections of the anus and rectum, some neuralgic affections, rheumatism, local anodyne for bruises, sprains, and local injury including poisoning by Rhus toxicodendron [poison ivy], pupil dilation [The National Dispensatory, 5th Edition, 1896]
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Gift of Nathan Singer
1870-1900
ID Number
2002.0137.024
accession number
2002.0137
catalog number
2002.0137.024
Object Name
bottle, apothecary
Other Terms
bottle; Containers
Physical Description
glass (container material)
Stramonium tincture (product ingredient)
Measurements
overall: 8 1/8 in x 3 1/4 in; 20.6375 cm x 8.255 cm
overall: 20 cm x 7.75 cm; 7 7/8 in x 3 1/16 in
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National Museum of American History
subject
Pain & Neuralgia Drugs
Respiratory & Asthma Drugs
Indigestion & Nausea Drugs
Record ID
nmah_1215932
Metadata Usage (text)
CC0
GUID (Link to Original Record)
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-9cb4-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

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