Suppository Machine
notes: label: Description
content: Aluminum machine with an “Applebaum Suppository Machine / MFD. By Druggists Appliance MFG. Co., Port Richmond, N.Y. Pats. Pending.” Samuel Karl Applebaum (1877-1942) was a Russian Jew who immigrated to the United States in 1896, and graduated from the Columbia University College of Pharmacy in 1912. In 1918, he was producing and selling drugs under the Montauk Chemical Company. In the 1920s he moved to Los Angeles.
label: Description
content: Ref: Samuel K. Applebaum, “Suppository-Making Machine,” U.S. Patent 1,507,303 (Sept. 2, 1924).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of George Washington University, School of Pharmacy; Accession 259201 (1964)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-10950
label: catalog number
content: M-10950
label: accession number
content: 259201
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Machine, Suppository
label: Object Name
content: suppository machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, aluminum (mold inserts(2) material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (mold inserts(2) material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/2 in x 3 3/4 in x 2 3/8 in; 13.97 cm x 9.525 cm x 6.0325 cm