Dr Wilcox's Tablets for Pressure Anaesthesia
notes: label: Description
content: Glass jar of tablets containing cocaine and adrenaline, with cork lid. The inscription on the lid of the cardboard box reads “Dr. Wilcox’s Tablets / for Pressure Anaesthesia / PREPARED BY PARKE, DAVIS & CO. / . . . / LEE S. SMITH & SON.” In use, the tablets would be placed in a Wilcox Jewett obtunding syringe. Dr. Wilcox was the inventive dentist, Amos Allen Wilcox (d. 1919).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: W. Harry Archer, D.D.S.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-07135
label: catalog number
content: M-07135
label: accession number
content: 218892
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical
label: Object Name
content: anesthesia
label: Object Name
content: cocaine hydrochlorate
label: Other Terms
content: Pharmaceuticals; Drugs; Non-Liquid
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall as stored: 1/2 in x 1 1/4 in x 2 in; 1.27 cm x 3.175 cm x 5.08 cm