biological; penicillin assay standards
date: label: date made
content: 1940
notes: label: Description
content: "Some early [penicillin] assay standards. Each tube contained a weighed amount of a standard of known potency, so that the total number of units in the tube was known." -- as described by Dr. Norman G. Heatley, one of the members of the team that developed penicillin in 1940-41 at the Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford. Dr. Heatley obtained these samples for the Smithsonian in 1953 for the museum's exhibition on antibiotics.
label: Description
content: The longer ampule is labelled "30 units" the other "23.5 units."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Oxford
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, through Dr. N. G. Heatley; Accession 199422 (1953)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-06698
label: catalog number
content: M-06698
label: accession number
content: 199422
objectType: label: Object Name
content: biological
label: Object Name
content: penicillin assay standards
label: Other Terms
content: Penicillin Assay Standards; Antibiotics; Biologicals; Drugs; Non-Liquid
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: penicillin (drug active ingredients)
label: Measurements
content: overall, large ampoule: 2 1/2 in x 1/4 in; 6.35 cm x .635 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall, small ampoule: 2 in x 1/4 in; 5.08 cm x .635 cm