Hydrastine (Medium Crystals)
date: label: date made
content: ca 1883
name: label: maker
content: Lloyd, John Uri
notes: label: Description
content: Glass vial with cork stopper and paper label. Vial is full of white crystals. Label on bottle reads: Hydrastine / C22H28NO6 .
label: Description
content: Object recorded as "Crystals of hydrastine furnished [to] Dr. F. B. Power by Dr. John Uri Lloyd, in order to have its crystalline structure determined. This determination was published by Dr. Power in the Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association for 1884."
label: Description
content: Hydrastine is an alkaloid of Hydrastis canadensis, also known as Goldenseal.
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: Ohio, Cincinnati
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-01414
label: catalog number
content: M-01414
label: accession number
content: 67560
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical
label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical
label: Other Terms
content: Pharmaceuticals; Drugs; Non-Liquid
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/4 in x 5/8 in; 6.985 cm x 1.5875 cm