Glass Bottle for Ethyl Chloride
notes: label: Description
content: Glass bottle with paper label that reads “Chemisches Institut Dr. Thilo & Co. / Dr. Thilo’s Chloraeth. . . / Chemisch reines Aethylchlorid.” Dr. Thilo’s Chemical Institute in Mainz, Germany, introduced ethyl chloride for local or general anesthesia. The stuff was available in the United States by 1903.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Rhineland Palatinate, Mainz
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: W. Harry Archer, D.D.S.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-07150
label: catalog number
content: M-07150
label: accession number
content: 218892
objectType: label: Object Name
content: anesthesia
label: Object Name
content: ethyl chloride
label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical
label: Other Terms
content: Pharmaceuticals; Drugs
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/4 in x 6 in x 1 3/8 in; 4.445 cm x 15.24 cm x 3.4925 cm