Vapo-Cresolene
name: label: maker
content: Vapo-Cresolene Company
notes: label: Description
content: Glass and metal vaporizer made by the Vapo-Cresolene Co. in New York City. Inscriptions read “CRESOLENE” and “VAPO. . .” Cresolene, a by-product of coal tar, was on the market by 1879.
label: Description
content: Ref: J. H. Egan, “Vapo Cresolene Vaporizer Used For The Treatment of Pertussis, Asthma, Croup, Pharyngitis, &c.,” Medical Summary (May, 1880): 54-57.
label: Description
content: Vapo Cresolene ad in the Medical Herald (Jan. 1890).
label: Description
content: Ad in the Atlantic Monthly (July 1924), p. 124
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Gary P. and Sandra Baden
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0798.483
label: accession number
content: 1979.0798
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0798.483
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Vaporizer
label: Object Name
content: vaporizer, disinfectant
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (packaging material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass; steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall as stored: 6 1/2 in x 3 1/2 in x 3 in; 16.51 cm x 8.89 cm x 7.62 cm