Procaine
name: label: maker
content: Eli Lilly and Company
notes: label: Description
content: Glass vial with paper label that reads in part “POISON / 100 / PROCAINE / POINTS” and “ELI LILLY & COMPANY / INDIANAPOLIS, U.S.A.” AND “Formula of J. P. Buckley, Ph. G., D.D.S.” John P. Buckley was a graduate of the Chicago College of Dental Surgery who became President of the American Dental Association.
label: Description
content: Alfred Einhorn, a German chemist, synthesized procaine in 1905 and gave it the trade name Novocaine. It was introduced to medical practice soon thereafter and used largely for dental purposes. Eli Lilly’s Procaine Points were on the market by the early 1920s.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Dr. John P. Buckley, Reform Crusader, Dies,” Los Angeles Times (May 15, 1942), pp. A1 and A2.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Indiana, Indianapolis
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.312608.071
label: accession number
content: 312608
label: catalog number
content: 312608.071
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical
label: Other Terms
content: Pharmaceuticals; Drugs; Non-Liquid
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: box: 3 in x 7/8 in x 7/8 in; 7.62 cm x 2.2225 cm x 2.2225 cm
label: Measurements
content: vial: 2 5/8 in x 5/8 in; 6.6675 cm x 1.5875 cm