Box of liver extract no. 343, circa 1929
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Title
Box of liver extract no. 343, circa 1929
Subject
Eli Lilly and Company
Cardboard
Glass
Liver extracts
Liver
Anemia
Anemia, pernicious
Hematology
Abstract
Rectangular green cardboard box containing sixteen glass vials, fourteen empty, one corked, and one unopened. Unopened vial has green cap. There are eight empty slots where additional vials originally were.
Creator
Eli Lilly and Company
Date Created
1929, circa
Rights
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Is Part Of
Warren Anatomical Museum: 21053
Format
object
Extent
1 box of liver extract
Medium
Pharmaceutical preparations
Type
physical object
Identifier
Warren Anatomical Museum: 21053
Provenance
This box of liver extract no. 343 was created circa 1929 by Eli Lilly and Company as a treatement for pernicious anemia, after methods developed by George Minot, William Murphy, and George Whipple. In 2013, Dr. Peter Tishler donated this box of liver extract no. 343 to the Warren Anatomical Musuem.
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Box of liver extract
Physical Dimensions
11.25 W x 16 D x 6.5 H cm
Files
Collection
Citation
Eli Lilly and Company, “Box of liver extract no. 343, circa 1929,” OnView, accessed August 15, 2024, https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/index.php/items/show/17340.