Tincture Capsicum
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer, or as found in contemporary medical literature, are:
- For use as a gastro-intestinal stimulant. Also employed as a local counter-irritant by applying it on blotting paper. [Remington's Practice of Pharmacy, Seventh Edition,1926]
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1930
- maker
- W. H. Schieffelin and Company
- Physical Description
- glass (overall material)
- paper (label material)
- cayenne pepper (drug active ingredients)
- alcohol, 87% (overall active ingredients)
- Measurements
- overall: 5 3/8 in x 1 3/4 in x 1 3/4 in; 13.6525 cm x 4.445 cm x 4.445 cm
- ID Number
- MG.M-02976
- catalog number
- M-02976
- accession number
- 112193
- subject
- Indigestion & Nausea Drugs
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Botanical Medicine
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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