Toothache Plasters
name: label: maker
content: Seabury & Johnson
notes: label: Description
content: The inscription on the tin case reads in part “DARBY’S / TOOTHACHE PLASTERS / FOR THE PROMPT CURE OF PAIN / FROM THE ULCERATED TEETH, NEU- / RALGIA, EXPOSED NERVES, ETC./ PREPARED AT THE / SEABURY PHARMACAL LABORATORIES / NEW YORK, U.S.A. / SEABURY & JOHNSON / NEW YORK, LONDON, HAMBURG.” Franklin Benjamin Darby (1847-1936) was a dentist in Elmira, N.Y.
label: Description
content: Ref: Frank B. Darby, “Dental Capsicum Plaster,” U.S. Patent 335,799 (Feb. 9, 1886).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dr. James E. Aiguier
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.260892.245
label: accession number
content: 260892
label: catalog number
content: 260892.245
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Plasters, Toothache, Set of
label: Other Terms
content: Plasters, Toothache, Set of; Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/4 in x 2 1/4 in x 1 1/4 in; .635 cm x 5.715 cm x 3.175 cm