Sulphate of New Alkaloid from Sanguinaria [Canadine Sulphate]
date: label: date made
content: 1883-1892
notes: label: Description
content: Glass vial with screw-on metal cap and handwritten paper label. Label reads: Sulphate of / new Alkaloid / from Sanguinaria / (Stecher). Vial full of orangish powder.
label: Description
content: Object recorded as "Canadine sulphate prepared by Stecher." Stecher was a student of Dr. Power at the University of Wisconsin.
label: Description
content: [Frederick Belding Power (1853-1927) graduated from the College of Pharmacy in Philadelphia in 1874. In 1880 he earned his doctorate from the University of Strasburg in Germany after which he returned to Philadelphia to teach analytical chemistry at the School of Pharmacy. In 1883 Dr. Power was recruited to establish the pharmacy department at the University of Wisconsin which he directed unitl 1892. In 1896 Henry S. Wellcome selected Dr. Power to become the first director of the new Wellcome Chemical Research Laboratory in London. From 1916 to1927 Dr. Power headed the Phytochemical Laboratory at the United States Department of Agriculture.]
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Wisconsin, Madison
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. Frederick B. Power
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-01420
label: catalog number
content: M-01420
label: accession number
content: 67560
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical
label: Other Terms
content: Pharmaceuticals; Drugs; Non-Liquid