A topical treatment intended for soothing muscular aches, minor strains and sprains, minor frost bites, mild sunburn, and non-venomous insect bites and stings. The liniment was first produced in 1861 in Chicago by…

Color print advertisement for the Dow Chemical Company featuring an image of a young girl on a seesaw. The accompanying text details various applications of Dow products, including vitamins, fumigation, waste disposal,…

Color print advertisement for pharmaceutical chemicals produced by the Dow Chemical Company. The advertisement features a photographic reproduction of two children skiing. Accompanying text describes how "the advances…

Portrait of Edwin J. Cohn (1892-1953). Cohn was a professor of biological chemistry at Harvard Medical School and one of the first to apply basic physical chemical principles to study amino acids and proteins. During…

Color print advertisement for Dow Pharmaceuticals. The advertisement features a color illustration of an industrial plant, overlaid with illustrations of glass scientific instruments and beakers. Inside the instruments…

Black and white print magazine advertisement for E.R. Squibb & Sons featuring an image of a micrograph of penicillin, the exterior of the corporation's penicillin manufacturing building, and the factory interior.

Prentiss responds to Kauffman's assessment of the hospital oxygen analyzer, with emphasis upon the question of its ruggedness.

Developed from a Linus Pauling design during WWII, the technology behind Beckman…

Color print advertisement for Dow Chemical Pharmaceutical Division. The advertisement features an illustration of a man in a well-furnished study consulting a book, with a microscope in view on his desk. He is seen…

Black and white advertisement from the International Nickel Company, Inc. highlighting the use of nickel to produce corrosion-resisting stainless steel for a variety of applications. The advertisement features an…

This nurse is monitoring the oxygen levels of a prematurely born infant in an incubator, to provide just the right oxygen mixture. Too little oxygen has obvious repercussions, but until the 1950s doctors did not realize…

Los Angeles County General Hospital nurse Mary Finlay is monitoring the oxygen levels of a prematurely born infant in an incubator, to provide just the right oxygen mixture. Too little oxygen has obvious repercussions,…

Beckman Instruments began producing centrifuges after their January 1, 1955 acquisition of industry leader, Specialized Instruments Corporation, or Spinco. With Spinco came the famous Model E Ultracentrifuge, which was…

Beckman Instruments began producing centrifuges after their January 1, 1955 acquisition of industry leader, Specialized Instruments Corporation, or Spinco. With Spinco came the famous Model E Ultracentrifuge, which was…

Beckman Instruments began producing centrifuges after their January 1, 1955 acquisition of industry leader, Specialized Instruments Corporation, or Spinco. With Spinco came the famous Model E Ultracentrifuge, which was…

Gold colored plastic box with a black circular grate and gold steel clips on the front; on the left top corner is a black plastic tone dial and on the right top corner is the volume dial; on the right side is a black…

General view of an unidentified employee conducting an experiment with assorted fruit specimens in the Dow Chemical Company's Biological Chemical Laboratory. The laboratory commonly conducted research and testing…

General view of an unidentified employee working with assorted test tubes in the Dow Chemical Company's Biological Chemical Laboratory. The laboratory commonly conducted research and testing related to the development…

General view of an unidentified employee holding a mouse while standing in front of several rows of cages used to house mice at the Dow Chemical Company's Biological Chemical Laboratory. The laboratory commonly…

The Manometric Blood Gas Apparatus was a revision on the original, fairly simple volumetric glass apparatus designed by Dr. Van Slyke in around 1917. The instrument liberated and isolated "the desired gas contained in a…

Promotional booklet describing the infrastructure for health and safety testing of various products manufactured and sold by the E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Company. Highlights du Pont's toxicology program. Fully…

General view of an unidentified employee weighing a rabbit in the Dow Chemical Company's Biological Chemical Laboratory. Several rows of pens containing other rabbits are visible in the background. The laboratory…

Package states the "Medicated lozenges are beneficial in alleviating coughs due to smoking or colds, hoarseness, rawness, irritation, tickling and soreness, resulting from dryness of the through or from clearing the…

Article from Life magazine, October 21, 1957.

Hollow 8 mm tube of crimped, flexible Dacron (synthetic polyester fiber), off-white in color, and pink orange product label housed in original sealed plastic bag. Typically in the shape of a tube, Dacron grafts are…

Peruvian postage stamp commemorating the centenary of the birth of Daniel Alcides Carrión García (1857-1885), a Peruvian medical student after whom Carrion's disease is named. The stamp depicts Saint Martin de Porres…