Sozodont Powder for Cleansing the Teeth
name: label: maker
content: Hall & Ruckel
notes: label: Description
content: Tin container with a “SOZODONT POWDER / FOR CLEANSING THE TEETH” inscription on the lid. The “GINNA & CO., N.Y.” inscription identifies the firm that made the tin. Sozodont—the term presumably comes from the Greek words for save and teeth—was created ca. 1859 by Roswell van Buskirk, a pharmacist in New Jersey. By the early 1870s, Sozodont had become a product of Hall & Ruckel, a wholesale druggist firm in New York City.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Roswell van Buskirk,” American Druggist and Pharmaceutical Record 40 (1902): 346.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Beauty and Hygiene Products: Oral Care
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content: Beauty and Health
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.293320.0986
label: accession number
content: 293320
label: catalog number
content: 293320.0986
objectType: label: Object Name
content: oral hygiene product
label: Object Name
content: tooth powder
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/8 in x 2 3/4 in x 2 in; 2.8575 cm x 6.985 cm x 5.08 cm