K. & M. Effervescent Bromo Caffeine
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer, or as found in contemporary medical literature, are:
- For brain workers. This delightful effervescent salt is an almost certain remedy for the relief of the nervous headache resulting from overtaxed mental energy or excitement, actue attacks of indigestion, the depression following alcoholif excesses, the supra-sensitiveness of chloral, morphia, and opium habitues, and with ladies the headache and backache of neurasthenia, hysteria, dysmenorrhoea and kindred disorders. A great boon and prompt source of relief in almost all cases of headache and distress attending mental fatigue and physical exhaustion, it commends itself especially to physicians, teachers, clergyman, lawyers, merchants and others following professions or pursuits requiring nerve energy subjecting to mental strain.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- otc preparation
- Date made
- after 1920
- date made
- 1920-1940
- maker
- Keasbey and Mattison Company
- Physical Description
- guarana (drug active ingredients)
- hydrobromic acid (drug active ingredients)
- caffeine (drug active ingredients)
- glass (container material)
- metal (container material)
- Measurements
- overall: 6 3/8 in x 2 1/8 in x .125 cm x 5.5 cm; 16.1925 cm x 5.3975 cm x 1/16 in x 2 5/32 in
- Place Made
- United States: Pennsylvania, Ambler
- ID Number
- 1979.0798.010
- catalog number
- 1979.0798.010
- accession number
- 1979.0798
- subject
- Indigestion & Nausea Drugs
- Women's Health Products
- Health & Medicine
- Nerve & Brain Drugs
- Balm of America
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Balm of America
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
- Credit Line
- Gift of Gary P. and Sandra Baden
- Additional Media
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