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Bayer Aspirin Pillbox, 12 Tablet Size

  • 1930 – 1949

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Small, shallow, rectangular tin box containing medicine pills. Label on front of tin has yellow background with "12 Bayer-Tablets of Aspirin, 5 grs. each" in white text on brown background. Image of small round white tablet marked "BAYER" appears horizontally and vertically on the bottom left corner of the front of pillbox lid. Tin pillbox contains medicine tablets inside.

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Aspirin: Turn-of-the-Century Miracle Drug

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Science History Institute. Bayer Aspirin Pillbox, 12 Tablet Size. Photograph, 2017. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/8336h2335.

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