Ascatco
Ascatco
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- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging:
- For asthma, catarrh, bronchitis, hay fever, rose fever, and other diseases of the respiratory organs
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- otc preparation
- Date made
- after 1906
- maker
- Ascatco Laboratory
- Place Made
- United States: New York, New York City
- Physical Description
- alcohol 13% (drug active ingredients)
- opium (drug active ingredients)
- arsenious acid (drug active ingredients)
- Measurements
- overall: 4 in x 3.8 cm x 1 5/8 in; 10.16 cm x 1 1/2 in x 4.1275 cm
- ID Number
- 1989.0711.04
- accession number
- 1989.0711
- catalog number
- 1989.0711.04
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. James Harvey Young
- subject
- Respiratory & Asthma Drugs
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Balm of America
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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