Tin

Object/Artifact

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Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Tin

Entry/Object ID

1993.139

Description

Rectangular metal box with a gold finish. Paint with dark green painted letters. Marks: HEXYLRESORCINOL / SUCRETS / SHARP & DOHME LSK: inscription on box front - "twenty-four Hexylresorcinol Sucrets (Trocmsal Hexylresorcinotis 1:1000) Tested for Germicidal Activity. A sucret dissolved slowly in the mouth produces a marked soothing effect on the irritated mucous surface of the mouth and throat. Made in the USA. SHARP & DOHME, PHILADELPHIA - BALTIMORE"; on back of box - "A Standardized Product. Five cc of a saturated acqueous solution of these sucrets destroy one 3mm loopful of a 24 hour standard broth cullture of Staphyloccus aureus on less than 15 seconds contact at 37*C."

Made/Created

Date made

1935 - 1975

Place

* Untyped Place

Philadelphia (Pa.)

Notes

Creation Date: 1935-1975

Dimensions

Height

3/4 in

Width

3-1/4 in

Depth

2-1/2 in

Material

tin

Relationships

Related Places

Place

* Untyped Place

Baltimore, USA

Notes

Additional Place of Origin