Konseal Apparatus
notes: label: Description
content: Stanislaus Limousin (1831-1887), a pharmacist in Paris, devised a way of encapsulating medicines in water soluble capsules (which he called “cachets”) in the early 1870s. Karl Morstadt, in Prague, introduced a cachet closing apparatus in 1891, later receiving U.S. Patents 582,021 and 648,594. J. M. Grosvenor & Co., the U.S. sales agent for the Morstadt apparatus, used the word Konseal rather than Cachet. A torn paper label in the lid of this wooden box reads in part “DIRECTIONS FOR USING THE / KONSEAL FILLING AND / CLOSING APPARATUS.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
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-10952
label: catalog number
content: M-10952
label: accession number
content: 259201
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Cashet Apparatus
label: Object Name
content: cachet apparatus
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (parts(11) material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (?? material)
label: Measurements
content: case: 3 in x 9 1/2 in x 6 1/2 in; 7.62 cm x 24.13 cm x 16.51 cm