Sozodont Powder - for Cleansing the Teeth
name: label: maker
content: Hall & Ruckel
notes: label: Description
content: Metal powder dispensing tin with label that reads in part “SOZODONT POWDER / FOR CLEANSING THE TEETH” and “HALL & RUCKEL, NEW YORK.” Roswell van Buskirk, a pharmacist in New Jersey, coined the term Sozodont ca. 1859. It presumably comes from the Greek words for save and teeth. By the early 1870s, Sozodont was a product of Hall & Ruckel, a wholesale druggist in New York City.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Beauty and Hygiene Products: Oral Care
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content: Beauty and Health
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.0165.494
label: accession number
content: 2012.0165
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0165.494
objectType: label: Object Name
content: oral hygiene product
label: Object Name
content: tooth powder
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/4 in x 2 1/4 in x 1 1/4 in; 8.255 cm x 5.715 cm x 3.175 cm