Crude (decolourised) Penicillin (Sodium Salt), 28-3-'41
date: label: date made
content: 1941-03-28
notes: label: Description
content: "An early sample of penicillin, such as was used for the first human trials in the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. This material almost certainly had less than 40 units per mg." 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 this sample for the Smithsonian in 1953 for the museum's exhibition on antibiotics.
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-06696
label: catalog number
content: M-06696
label: accession number
content: 199422
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Penicillin, Sample
label: Object Name
content: antibiotic, sample
label: Object Name
content: biological
label: Other Terms
content: Penicillin, Sample; Antibiotics; Biologicals; Drugs; Non-Liquid
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: penicillin, crude (drug active ingredients)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 7/8 in x 7/8 in; 4.7625 cm x 2.2225 cm