Orthoform
name: label: maker
content: H.A. Metz Laboratories
notes: label: Description
content: Empty glass bottle with paper label that reads “100/ ORTHO / TROCHES / EACH CONTAINING / ORTHOFORM ¼ GRAIN / H. A. METZ / Laboratories / Inc. / 122 Hudson St. / New York.”
label: Description
content: Orthoform is an anesthetic developed in Germany and available in the United States by 1897. Herman August Metz (1867-1934) was a New Yorker of German descent who established his own firm in 1903.
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 Mario Cassinelli, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0782.289
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0782.289
label: accession number
content: 1984.0782
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical
label: Object Type
content: Drugs
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9.7 cm x 3.5 cm x 3.5 cm; 3 13/16 in x 1 3/8 in x 1 3/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 3/8 in x 1 3/8 in x 1 3/8 in; 11.1125 cm x 3.4925 cm x 3.4925 cm