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- Description
- Greenish glass bottle with embossed inscriptions that read "SCHENCK'S / PULMONIC / SYRUP / PHILADA." The syrup was on the market by 1865. The A.M.A. reported in 1913 that it was “essentially a wintergreen-flavored mixture of saccharin syrups.” In 1914, an attorney for the Southern District of New York, seized and condemned several cases of Schenck’s pulmonic syrup, claiming they were misbranded in violation of the federal Pure Food and Drug Act.
- Ref: Full page ad for J. H. Schenck’s Pulmonic Syrup in New York Times (Nov. 18, 1865), p. 3.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Bottle
- otc preparation
- Other Terms
- Bottle; Containers
- place made
- United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- Physical Description
- green (overall color)
- glass, ?, transparent (overall material)
- green ware (overall popular color name)
- 8-sided (overall shape)
- narrow mouth (overall shape)
- Measurements
- overall: 7 3/8 in x 3 in x 3 in; 18.7325 cm x 7.62 cm x 7.62 cm
- ID Number
- MG.65.2073
- accession number
- 256516
- catalog number
- 65.2073
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Balm of America
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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