Antikamnia & Codeine Tablets

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Description:

The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging: For coughs, colds, bronchial and laryngeal affections; for dysmenorrhoea and allied aches; for rheumatic pain, neuralgia, for fever pain generally

Date Made: after 1919

Maker: Antikamnia Remedy Company

Location: Currently not on view

Place Made: United States: Missouri, Saint Louis

Subject: Catarrh, Cough & Cold Drugs, Women's Health Products, Fever & Chill Drugs, Pain & Neuralgia Drugs, Women's Health

See more items in: Medicine and Science: Medicine, Health & Medicine, Balm of America

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Credit Line: Gift of Mary E. and Joseph F. Melfi, Jr., Tupper's Drug Store, Summerville, South Carolina

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: 1980.0698.075Accession Number: 1980.0698Catalog Number: 1980.0698.075

Object Name: otc preparationOther Terms: Patent Medicines; Drugs; Non-Liquid

Physical Description: metal (overall packaging material)acetanilid (drug active ingredients)codeine sulphate (derivative of opium) (drug active ingredients)Measurements: overall: 2 3/8 in x 1 5/8 in; 6.0325 cm x 4.1275 cm

Metadata Usage: CC0

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-3e39-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_715852

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