Colchicine Amorphous Roche
name: label: maker
content: Hoffmann-LaRoche Chemical Works, Inc.
label: maker
content: F. Hoffmann-La Roche and Company
notes: label: Description
content: One of twenty-two (22) specimens of official medicinal alkaloids and alkaloidal salts donated by the Hoffmann-LaRoche Chemical Works in 1922 for the pharmacy exhibits. The museum curator requested this material to accompany an exhibit on the vegetable drugs. Medicinal alkaloids and alkaloidal salts are physiologically active chemicals derived from plants. The specimens of medicinal alkaloids were to be displayed alongside specimens of the crude drugs and powdered drugs from which they are extracted.
label: Description
content: In 1906, the Swiss pharmaceutical firm, F. Hoffmann-LaRoche & Company, established the Hoffmann-LaRoche Chemical Works in New York City to import and market their products in the United States. The medicinal alkaloids in these display vials were most likely manufactured at the parent company in Basle, Switzerland. In 1929, the company opened a manufacturing plant in Nutley, New Jersey.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
label: place made
content: Switzerland: Basle-Town, Basle
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Hoffman-LaRoche Chemical Works, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-01557
label: accession number
content: 68109
label: catalog number
content: M-01557
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical
label: Object Name
content: crude drug
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass; paper; wax; organic material (Colchicine Amorphous Roche) (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 3/8 in x 1 3/8 in; 13.6525 cm x 3.4925 cm