Suppository Machine
notes: label: Description
content: Suppository machine with a “FOX . . . / PERFECTION . . . / Boston . . .” inscriptiion. Clarence W. Fox (1857-1912), the inventor, was a founding member of Fox, Fultz & Webster, a pharmaceutical firm in Boston.
label: Description
content: Ref: Clarence W. Fox, “Machine for Making Suppositories,” U.S. Patent 509,154 (Nov. 21, 1893).
label: Description
content: Fox, Fultz & Webster ad for the Perfection Suppository Machine and other items, in The Western Druggist (1893).
label: Description
content: "Clarence W. Fox Buried," Boston Globe (Feb. 16, 1912), p. 11.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-12895.01
label: catalog number
content: M-12894
label: accession number
content: 288176
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Machine, Suppository
label: Object Name
content: suppository machine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/4 in x 6 1/4 in x 11 5/8 in; 5.715 cm x 15.875 cm x 29.5275 cm