The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer, or as found in contemporary medical literature, are: Antimalarial and tonic. For use as an ingredient of preparations in which it remains undissolved and therefore tasteless [Remington's Practice of Pharmacy, Seventh Edition, 1926]
One of thirteen (13) specimens of medicinal alkaloids and alkaloidal salts donated by the Powers-Weightman-Rosengarten Company (P-W-R) in 1922 for the pharmacy exhibits. Medicinal alkaloids and alkaloidal salts are physiologically active chemicals derived from plants. In the exhibit, specimens of medicinal alkaloids were displayed alongside specimens of the crude drugs and powdered drugs from which they are extracted.
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