Bisodol Powder (Antacid-Alkalizer)
Bisodol Powder (Antacid-Alkalizer)
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: relieving upset stomach, acid-indigestion, "gas", heart-burn, fullness, nausea, sour stomach, and other forms of distress when caused by excess stomach acidity.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- otc preparation
- Object Type
- Drugs
- Date made
- after 1922
- maker
- Whitehall Laboratories
- place made
- United States: New York, New York City
- associated place
- United States: Louisiana, Saint Martinville
- Physical Description
- glass (bottle material)
- metal (cap material)
- paper (label material)
- sodium bicarbonate (drug active ingredients)
- magnesium carbonate (drug active ingredients)
- bismuth subnitrate (drug active ingredients)
- oil of peppermint (drug active ingredients)
- Measurements
- overall: 8 1/8 in x 4 3/8 in; 20.6375 cm x 11.1125 cm
- ID Number
- 1985.0475.377
- catalog number
- 1985.0475.377
- accession number
- 1985.0475
- Credit Line
- The Fournet Drugstore Collection
- subject
- Indigestion & Nausea Drugs
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Balm of America
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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