Ethyl Chloride
name: label: maker
content: Gebauer Chemical Company
notes: label: Description
content: The inscriptions on this metal cylinder read “GEBAUER’S / ETHYL CHLORIDE S.P.” Those on the green cardboard box read in part “100 GRAM TUBE / GEBAUER’S ETHYL CHLORIDE / FOR LOCAL AND GENERAL ANESTHESIA / STRICTLY CHEMICALLY PURE / THE GEBAUER CHEMICAL CO. / Manufacturing Chemists / CLEVELAND, O., U.S.A. / CAUTION:-POISON-INFLAMABLE.”
label: Description
content: Charles Gebauer and his brother Theophil began in business in Cleveland in 1899 and incorporated the Gebauer Chemical Co. in 1902. Their main product was ethyl chloride, an anesthetic substance that, heretofore, was only available from Germany.
label: Description
content: Ref: Charles L. Gebauer, “Receptacle for Containing and Administering Volatile Liquids,” U.S. Patent 668,815 (Feb. 26, 1901).
label: Description
content: Charles L. Gebauer, “Receptacle for Containing and Administering Volatile Liquids,” U.S. Patent 711,045 (Oct. 14, 1902).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Cleveland
label: associated place
content: United States: Louisiana, Saint Martinville
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The Fournet Drugstore Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0475.676
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0475.676
label: accession number
content: 1985.0475
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ethyl chloride
label: Object Name
content: anesthesia
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/2 in x 2 in x 8 1/4 in; 3.81 cm x 5.08 cm x 20.955 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 20.8 cm x 5.2 cm x 3.5 cm; 8 3/16 in x 2 1/16 in x 1 3/8 in