New Alkaloid from Sanguinaria [Canadine]
date: label: date made
content: 1883-1892
notes: label: Description
content: Glass vial with sealed and tied cork stopper and handwritten paper label. Label reads: New Alkaloid / from / Sanguinaria / (Stecher). Vial conbtains a small amount of orangish powder.
label: Description
content: Object recorded as "Specimen of canadine, an alkaloid isolated from Sanguinaria canadensis, by a student named Stecher, under Dr. F. B. Power at the University of Wisconsin. This alkaloid later determined and described by Schmidt as canadine."
label: Description
content: [Frederick Belding Power (1853-1927) graduated from the College of Pharmacy in Philadelphia in 1874. In 1880 he earned his doctorate from the University of Strasburg in Germany after which he returned to Philadelphia to teach analytical chemistry at the School of Pharmacy. In 1883 Dr. Power was recruited to establish the pharmacy department at the University of Wisconsin which he directed unitl 1892. In 1896 Henry S. Wellcome selected Dr. Power to become the first director of the new Wellcome Chemical Research Laboratory in London. From 1916 to1927 Dr. Power headed the Phytochemical Laboratory at the United States Department of Agriculture.]
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Wisconsin, Madison
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. Frederick B. Power
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-01417
label: catalog number
content: M-01417
label: accession number
content: 67560
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical
label: Other Terms
content: Pharmaceuticals; Drugs; Non-Liquid