Pituitrin (O) (Obstetrical)
Pituitrin (O) (Obstetrical)
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- Description
- Gray and white cardboard box with black printing containing six small, white rectangular boxes with black printing. Each holds 1cc cylindrical glass ampoules with white paper labels. Use: "To stimulate uterine contraction in cases of inertia or when labor is delayed by other than mechanical causes. Also as a hemostatic heart stimulant, diuretic and in post-operative paresis of the bladder and colon." The Pituitrin was part of a midwife's kit from Buffalo, NY, about 1920.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- pharmaceutical
- biological
- midwife's kit
- date made
- before 1924
- maker
- Parke, Davis and Company
- place made
- United States: Michigan, Detroit
- Physical Description
- cardboard (packaging material)
- glass (container material)
- paper (label material)
- pituitrin (drug active ingredients)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 1/2 in x 1 5/8 in x 1 1/8 in; 8.89 cm x 4.1275 cm x 2.8575 cm
- overall: 9.25 cm x 4.25 cm x 4 cm; 3 21/32 in x 1 11/16 in x 1 9/16 in
- part: ampoule box: 5.75 cm x 1.25 cm x 1.25 cm; 2 1/4 in x 1/2 in x 1/2 in
- part: ampoule: 5.25 cm x 1 cm; 2 1/16 in x 13/32 in
- ID Number
- 2012.0128.17
- accession number
- 2012.0128
- catalog number
- 2012.0128.17
- Credit Line
- Gift from Joseph Badlotto in memory of Rosa Bonfante and her daughter Mary Bonfante Chirchirillo Badlotto
- subject
- Medicine
- Women's Health
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Midwife Kit
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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