Former pharmaceutical box "Sugar tablets for diabetics"

A small, antique lithographed tin pharmaceutical box that once contained "Sucrettes," dosimetric saccharin tablets intended for diabetics. The highly regulated text specifies that their use is strictly limited to glycosurics, that they are sold exclusively by pharmaceutical companies, and lists a detailed composition including saccharin, sodium bicarbonate, and sodium arsenate. This packaging reflects the emergence of controlled medical dietary products during the Belle Époque, straddling the line between specialized nutrition and pharmacopoeia, with a scientific and normative discourse characteristic of the turn of the 20th century.

✦ Origin: France - L. Vernin, Melun
✦ Estimated period: Early 20th century
✦ Dimensions: 4.5 x 3.5 x 1 cm
✦ Material: Lithographed sheet metal
✦ Condition: Signs of wear consistent with age, lithograph clearly legible
✦ Content: With its original content

Antique pharmaceutical box particularly interesting for a collection about diabetes, old medical dietetics or regulated pharmaceutical specialties of the Belle Époque.