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This digital collection features selected medications and documents, manuals, and photographs relating to biochemical research and technology, with a focus on 20th-century instrumentation in medical laboratories. Various models of glucose, enzyme, and amino acid analyzers are a few of the instruments documented in these materials.

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  • Vessels (Containers), Medical equipment & supplies

    Bottle of Enovid 10 mg Oral Contraceptive

    • After 1960

    White plastic medicine bottle with safety cap. Bottle contains tablets and original inner seal is intact. White, dark red, and yellow label adhered to bottle reads "Enovid".

    The ubiquitous bottle has a long history.…

    • Manufacturer G.D. Searle & Co.
    • Subject Women--Health and hygiene, Contraception, G.D. Searle & Co., Mestranol, Drugs, Medicine bottles, Birth control, Oral contraceptives
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    Vessels (Containers), Medical equipment & supplies

    Bottle of Metamucil

    • Psyllium Hydrophilic Mucilloid, A Natural Vegetable Powder for Treatment of Constipation
    • Before 1985

    White plastic container with white painted screw capped metal lid. The main label is "Metamucil." Extensive descriptive and use information is printed on the container in green. The container is full with original seal…

    • Manufacturer G.D. Searle & Co.
    • Subject Plantago psyllium, G.D. Searle & Co., Psyllium products, Psyllium (Plants), Laxatives, Drugs, Medicine bottles, Metamucil

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