Pepsin, Essence of (Pepsincia)
date: label: date made
content: ca 1918
name: label: maker
content: Fairchild Brothers & Foster
notes: label: Description
content: One in a series of thirteen specimens illustrating the manufacture of pepsin. These objects were donated to the museum in 1918 by Fairchild Brothers & Foster a drug manufacturing firm specializing in digestion aids and the production of pepsin, a digestive enzyme.
label: Description
content: The German physiologist Theodor Schwann (1810-1882) is credited with discovering pepsin in 1836. By the end of the 19th century, pepsin, extracted from hog stomachs, was used in a wide number of medicinal preparations for digestive disorders.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Fairchild Brothers and Foster
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-00273
label: catalog number
content: M-00273
label: accession number
content: 62274
label: maker number
content: 13
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pepsin, Essence of
label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical
label: Other Terms
content: Pepsin, Essence of; Biological Extracts; Biologicals; Drugs; Liquid