Penicillin
date: label: date made
content: 1944
label: product expiration date
content: 1944-11-19
name: label: maker
content: Charles Pfizer and Company
label: maker
content: Upjohn Company
notes: label: Description
content: Sealed glass ampule with an inscription that reads in part “PENICILLIN SODIUM / 100,000 Oxford Units / THIS PREPARATION SHOULD BE STORED / BELOW 10°C (50°F) / EXPIRATION DATE: NOV. 19, 1944” and “MANUFACTURED BY CHAS. PFIZER & CO., INC.” and “SUPPLIED BY / THE Upjohn Company.”
label: Description
content: Sumner M. Morrison earned a master’s degree in Bacteriology and Physiology from Perdue University in 1942, and then landed a job with Upjohn, a pharmaceutical firm in Kalamazoo, Michigan, that was gearing up to produce and package penicillin, especially for military purposes. Morrison's daughter donated this vial to the Museum.
label: Description
content: Ref: “9 FIRMS EXPAND TO MAKE PENICILLIN,” New York Times (Aug. 30, 1943), p. 17.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
label: place made
content: United States: Michigan, Kalamazoo
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Susan J. Morrison
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2018.0204.01
label: catalog number
content: 2018.0204.01
label: accession number
content: 2018.0204
objectType: label: Object Name
content: biological
label: Object Name
content: antibiotic, penicillin
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: penicillin sodium (drug ingredient)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9.5 cm x 1.5 cm; 3 3/4 in x 19/32 in