Homeopathic Drug Kit
date: label: date made
content: ca 1830-1850
notes: label: Description
content: Homeopathic medicine case purportedly used by John Franklin Gray (1804-1882), one of the first practitioners of homeopathy in the United States. The kit contains 212 small glass vials with cork stoppers which fit upright in small holes arranged in 11 rows of 21 each (for a total of 231).
label: Description
content: Carroll Dunham Smith, who donated this item to the Smithsonian in 1921, was head of the Carroll Dunham Smith Pharmacal Co. in New York and later New Jersey. His grandfather, John Tillinghast Slocum Smith (1805-1876), was the first manufacturer of homeopathic medication in the U.S.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. Carroll Dunham Smith
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-01441.01
label: catalog number
content: M-01441.01
label: accession number
content: 67509
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drug Kit, Homeopathic
label: Object Name
content: homeopathic
label: Object Name
content: drug kit, homeopathic
label: Object Name
content: drug kit
label: Object Name
content: homeopathic preparations
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (vials(212) material)
label: Physical Description
content: leather; wood; fabric (box material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/8 in x 6 3/4 in x 3 3/4 in; 3.4925 cm x 17.145 cm x 9.525 cm