Hypodermatic Tablet Portfolio
name: label: maker
content: Parke, Davis and Company
notes: label: Description
content: Henry Augustus Wilson (1841-1919), a physician affiliated with St. Mary’s Hospital in Philadelphia, discussed the benefits of soluble compressed tablets for hypodermic use at a meeting of the Philadelphia County Medical Society in 1880. John Wyeth & Brother, a Philadelphia pharmaceutical firm, was selling tablets of this sort by 1881. Other pharmaceutical firms followed soon thereafter. The inscription in this leather case reads “HYPODERMIC TABLET PORTFOLIO / PARKE, DAVIS & CO. / Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A.”
label: Description
content: Ref: H. Augustus Wilson, “Soluble Compressed Hypodermic Tablets,” Medical and Surgical Reporter 56 (1887): 517-519.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Michigan, Detroit
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.293320.1490
label: catalog number
content: 293320.1490
label: accession number
content: 293320
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drug kit, hypodermic tablets
label: Object Name
content: Drug Kit
label: Object Name
content: medicine case, hypodermic tablets
label: Other Terms
content: Drug Kit; Pharmaceuticals
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 21.7 cm x 5.6 cm x 8.9 cm; 8 9/16 in x 2 3/16 in x 3 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 8 1/2 in x 3 1/2 in; 6.35 cm x 21.59 cm x 8.89 cm