Physician's Dispensary
date: label: date made
content: ca 1860s
name: label: user
content: John King, M.D.
notes: label: Description
content: Black leather three-fold case with "Physician's / DISPENSARY" stamped in gold on the cover. Inside there are a number of paper packets with various inscriptions: “DIVIDED MEDICINES” and “Method Patented” and “Prepared by FRED. KRAUS / CHEMIST & DRUGGIST / CINCINNATI, O.” Frederick Kraus (d. 1885) was associated with the Divided Medicine Co., a Cincinnati firm that advertised widely in the early 1870s.
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: Accession 94521 (1926); Gift of Dr. H. H. Hays (through John Uri Lloyd)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-02213
label: catalog number
content: M-02213
label: accession number
content: 94521
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drug Kit
label: Object Name
content: medicine case
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leather (case material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (envelopes(23) material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/8 in x 4 in x 9 1/4 in; 1.5875 cm x 10.16 cm x 23.495 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 23.5 cm x 10 cm x 1.5 cm; 9 1/4 in x 3 15/16 in x 9/16 in