Capsicum Compound Oil

Description:

The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer, or as found in contemporary medical literature, are:

For an irritant and a local stimulant. In proper quantities it excites a grateful warmth in the stomach and quickens the appetite and digestion. It tends to prevent flatulence occasioned by vegetable food and is of use by enabling feeble stomachs to digest food, as is shown by its efficacy in atonic dyspepsia. It is said to cure haemorrhoids, perhaps sometime cures intermittent fever, and it tends to prevent or to relieve sea-sickness. In delerium tremens it is beneficial by enabling the patient to retain and digest food. As a local stimulant it is particularly efficient in tonsillitis. [The National Dispensatory, Fifth Edition, 1896]

Date Made: 1906-1908

Maker: Fritzsche Brothers, Inc.Fritzsche Brothers, Inc.

Location: Currently not on view

Place Made: United States: New York, New York City

Subject: Indigestion & Nausea DrugsRheumatism & Arthritis Drugs

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Credit Line: Gift of Mario Cassinelli, Jr.

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: 1984.0782.299Catalog Number: 1984.0782.299Accession Number: 1984.0782

Object Name: pharmaceuticalObject Type: Drugs

Physical Description: glass (container material)metal (lid material)paper (label material)capsicum oil (drug ingredient)Measurements: overall: 7.6 cm x 3.5 cm; 3 in x 1 3/8 inoverall: 3 1/8 in x 1 1/2 in; 7.9375 cm x 3.81 cm

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a0-dee4-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_209717

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