Soluble Starch
date: label: date made
content: ca 1878
notes: label: Description
content: Glass vial with metal screw-on cap and paper handwritten label. Label reads: Soluble / Starch / from / Musculus / Strassburg / 1878. Vial contains irregular pieces of white solid.
label: Description
content: Object recorded as the "first specimen of soluble starch prepared by Dr. Musculus, Pharmacist of the Civic Hospital of Strassburg [Germany], about 1878.
label: Description
content: Frederick Belding Power (1853-1927) graduated from the College of Pharmacy in Philadelphia in 1874. In 1880 he earned his doctorate from the University of Strasburg in Germany after which he returned to Philadelphia to teach analytical chemistry at the College of Pharmacy. From 1883 to 1892 Dr. Power chaired the newly established pharmacy department at the University of Wisconsin. In 1896 Henry S. Wellcome selected Dr. Power to become the first director of the Wellcome Chemical Research Laboratory in London. From 1916 to1927 Dr. Power headed the Phytochemical Laboratory at the United States Department of Agriculture.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. Frederick B. Power
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-01416
label: catalog number
content: M-01416
label: accession number
content: 67560
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical
label: Other Terms
content: Pharmaceuticals; Drugs; Non-Liquid