Ethyl Chloride
name: label: maker
content: Stratford-Cookson Company
notes: label: Description
content: Glass jar with paper label that reads “ETHYL CHLORIDE / Entirely an American Product / Stratford-Cookson Co. / Philadelphia, Pa.” Ethyl chloride (aka chloroethane) was used as an anesthesia, a solvent, or a refrigerant.
label: Description
content: According to an announcement in Western Dental Journal (1913), “E. DE TREY & SONS / Changes Hands / Dr. T. F. Stratford, formerly Sales Manager of the Dentists’ Supply Company, and W. K. Cookson, who since 1905 has been Manager of E. de Trey & Sons, have purchased outright the above business and will continue same under the name of STRATFORD-COOKSON COMPANY.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of University of Pennsylvania School of Dentistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-09250.02
label: catalog number
content: M-09250
label: accession number
content: 218383
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Ethyl Chloride
label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical
label: Other Terms
content: Ethyl Chloride; Pharmaceuticals; Drugs
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 5/8 in x 1 3/4 in x 1 1/2 in; 19.3675 cm x 4.445 cm x 3.81 cm