Fluid Extract Cascara Sagrada U.S.P.
Fluid Extract Cascara Sagrada U.S.P.
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer, or as found in contemporary medical literature, are:
- For use as a tonic and cathartic. It is recommended in the treatment of habitual constipation, especially in those cases in which atony [flaccidity] of the stomach and bowels is a feature.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1920
- maker
- Eli Lilly and Company
- place made
- United States: Indiana, Indianapolis
- Physical Description
- glass (overall material)
- cork (stopper material)
- wax (stopper material)
- paper (label material)
- alcohol, 24 percent (drug active ingredients)
- cascara sagrada (Rhamnus Purshiana) (drug active ingrdients)
- Measurements
- overall: 7 5/8 in x 2 7/8 in; 19.3675 cm x 7.3025 cm
- ID Number
- 1979.0798.030
- accession number
- 1979.0798
- catalog number
- 1979.0798.030
- Credit Line
- Gift of Gary P. and Sandra Baden
- subject
- Laxatives
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Botanical Medicine
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
