Kola Granulee, Soluble, P. Astier
Kola Granulee, Soluble, P. Astier
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- Description
- Cylindrical glass bottle with metal screw-on cap and paper, wrap-around labels. Label on neck of bottle is blue with black print, and has images of medals awarded. Main label is brown with black and red print. Bottle is full of contents / unopened.
- Maker: Pharmacie Astier, 72 Avenue Kleber, Paris
- Dose/Directions: Deux Cuillerees a Cafe par jour dans du vin ou dans tout autre liquide aqueux (Two teaspoons per day in wine or any other aqueous liquid)
- Indications per label: aliment d'epargne; anti-neurasthenique; regulator du coeur; excitant du systeme musculare (anti-neurasthenic; heart regulator; muscular system stimulant)
- This item is part of a collection of pharmaceutical products exhibited by the French companies, Astier Pharmacie and Clin et Cie., at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition held in San Francisco, California, in 1915. Following the close of exhibition, the objects were donated to the Smithsonian by the French Commission to the exposition.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- otc preparation
- Other Terms
- Pharmaceuticals; Drugs; Non-Liquid
- Date made
- c. 1900
- maker
- Phamacie Astier
- place made
- France: Île-de-France, Paris
- Physical Description
- caffeine; theobromine; rouge de kola (red kola); tannin (drug active ingredients)
- Measurements
- overall: 4 3/4 in x 1 3/4 in; 12.065 cm x 4.445 cm
- ID Number
- MG.59672.12
- maker number
- 341184
- accession number
- 59672
- catalog number
- 59672.12
- Panama-Pacific International Exposition
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Balm of America
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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