Oscadol
date: label: Date made
content: ca. 1925-1932
name: label: maker
content: H.A. Metz Laboratories
notes: label: Description
content: Brown glass jar with paper label that reads in part “100 / OSCODAL / T.M. REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. AND CANADA / TABLETS / BRAND OF CODESTROL” and “Accepted by Council on / Pharmacy and Chemistry / of American Medical / Association / H. A. METZ / LABORATORIES, Inc. / NEW YORK / CANADIAN DISTRIBUTORS / WINTHROP CHEMICO CO., INC. / WINDSOR, ONT.”
label: Description
content: Casimir Funk Funk (1884-1967), a Polish-American biochemist who was among the first to formulate (in 1912) the concept of vitamins, and who served as head of the Metz laboratories in the early 1920s, prepared the first batch of Oscodal, a cod liver oil concentrate. Despite the statement on the label, the term Oscodal does not seem to have been registered with USPTO.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Vitamin Discoverer, Casimir Funk, Dead,” New York Times (Nov. 21, 1967), pp. 1 and 47.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Sterling Drug Collection
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Balm of America
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of The History Factory
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2001.0314.792
label: accession number
content: 2001.0314
label: catalog number
content: 2001.0314.792
objectType: label: Object Name
content: otc preparation
label: Object Name
content: Vitamin/Mineral Product
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/4 in x 1 5/8 in x 1 1/8 in; 9.525 cm x 4.12369 cm x 2.8575 cm