Ethyl Chloride
date: label: date made
content: after 1951
name: label: maker
content: Gebauer Chemical Company
notes: label: Description
content: Metal cylinder with an inscription that reads “GEBAUER’S ETHYL CHLORIDE S.P.” Inscriptions on the cardboard box read in part “Gebauer’s / Ethyl Chloride” and “100 Gram Tube” and “For local and general anesthesia. Strictly chemically pure. Gebauer Chemical Co., Cleveland 4, Ohio.” Charles Gebauer and his brother Theophil began in business in Cleveland in 1899 and incorporated the Gebauer Chemical Co. in 1902. Their main product was ethyl chloride, an anesthetic substance that, heretofore, was only available from Germany.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Cleveland
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Catherine F. Hoopes
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0957.08
label: accession number
content: 1981.0957
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0957.08
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Ethyl Chloride
label: Object Name
content: anesthesia
label: Object Name
content: ethyl chloride
label: Other Terms
content: Ethyl Chloride; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall as stored: 1 1/4 in x 1 3/4 in x 9 1/2 in; 3.175 cm x 4.445 cm x 24.13 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 18.5 cm x 3.2 cm; 7 9/32 in x 1 1/4 in