Pyramidon
date: label: Date made
content: ca. 1937
name: label: maker
content: H.A. Metz Laboratories
label: maker
content: Winthrop Chemical Company
notes: label: Description
content: Carboard box with labels that read in part “Pyramidon / TRADE MARK REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. / BRAND OF / ANDROPINE / 1 oz.” and “H. A. METZ LABORATORIES, INC. / NEW YORK” and “WINTHROP / CHEMICAL / COMPANY, INC. / NEW YORK / SUCCESSOR.”
label: Description
content: Pyramidon, a remedy against fever, rheumatism, and neuralgia, was developed in Germany, introduced to commerce in 1896., and received a U.S. patent in 1897. The H. A. Metz Laboratories, Inc., obtained the right to sell pyramidon in the United States, in 1912, and applied for a trademark on the term in 1923.
label: Description
content: Ref: Friedrich Stoltz, “Pyrazalon Compound and Process of Making Same,” U.S. Patent 579,412 (March 23, 1897), assigned to the Farbwerke, Vormals Meister, Lucius & Brüning.
label: Description
content: “SUE OVER ‘PYRAMIDON’,” New York Times (Feb. 9, 1930), p. N1.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Sterling Drug Collection
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of The History Factory
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2001.0314.035
label: catalog number
content: 2001.0314.035
label: accession number
content: 2001.0314
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pharmaceutical
label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5.8 cm x 3.5 cm x 3.5 cm; 2 5/16 in x 1 3/8 in x 1 3/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/4 in x 1 3/8 in x 1 3/8 in; 5.715 cm x 3.4925 cm x 3.4925 cm