Jelphedrin
Jelphedrin
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- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer, or as found in contemporary medical literature, are:
- For control of congestion in nasal areas, analgesic and vaso constrictor
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- pharmaceutical
- otc preparation
- date made
- ca 1940
- collection
- Reid Drugstore
- maker
- LaFayette Pharmaceutical Dist. Company
- place made
- United States: Indiana, Lafayette
- Physical Description
- cardboard (packaging material)
- metal (overall material)
- paper (inside material)
- Ephedrine Hydrochloride, 1/3%-1/2% (drug active ingredients)
- Sodium cloride, menthol with chlorbutanol, 3/4% (drug active ingredients)
- camphor (drug active ingredients)
- thymol (drug active ingredients)
- benzocaine (drug active ingredients)
- Measurements
- box: 3 7/8 in x 1 1/4 in x 3/4 in; 9.8425 cm x 3.175 cm x 1.905 cm
- tube: 3 5/8 in x 1 in; 9.2075 cm x 2.54 cm
- ID Number
- 1984.0351.177
- accession number
- 1984.0351
- catalog number
- 1984.0351.177
- Credit Line
- Gift of Blanche E. Reid
- subject
- Catarrh, Cough & Cold Drugs
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Balm of America
- Botanical Medicine
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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