Furacin Ophthalmic Liquid (Physician's Sample in Mailer)
date: label: date made
content: 1967
name: label: maker
content: Norwich Pharmacal Company
notes: label: Description
content: Physician's sample in mailing box. The illustration on the box shows a drop of liquid from a dropper bottle about to fall into an open eyeball. Text reads: "Saves the antibiotics and sulfonamides for systemic use." Third Class Bulk Rate Postage on back of box with additional space for mailing label. Text on back: "Your trial supply as requested". Also, handwritten on back in ink: List 72730 / Control 650936 / Lot 648207 / 9-28-67. The mailer box contains a small box with a plastic dropper bottle of Furacin and a 3x5 index card of drug information for Furacin Ophthalmic.
label: Description
content: In January 1966 Norwich Phamacal Company issued a recall of all Furacin Ophthalmic Liquid due to a loss of potency in recently manufactured lots. The company ceased production until the problem was resolved. Presumably this example from 1967, donated to the museum by Norwich Eaton in 1986, represents the resumption of distribution following the product recall.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Norwich
topic: label: associated subject
content: Ophthalmology
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Norwich Eaton Pharmaceuticals, Inc
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0198.119
label: accession number
content: 1986.0198
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0198.119
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pharmaceutical
label: Other Terms
content: Pharmaceutical; ?; Prescription Medicines; Drugs
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall, box, shipping: 5 3/8 in x 4 1/4 in x 1 1/4 in; 13.6525 cm x 10.795 cm x 3.175 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall, box, inner: 3 1/8 in x 1 1/8 in x 1 1/8 in; 7.9375 cm x 2.8575 cm x 2.8575 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall, bottle: 3 in x 1 in; 7.62 cm x 2.54 cm