Box of liver extract no. 343, circa 1929

Box of liver extract no. 343, circa 1929

Eli Lilly and Company

Cardboard

Glass

Liver extracts

Liver

Anemia

Anemia, pernicious

Hematology

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.

Eli Lilly and Company

1929, circa

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1 box of liver extract

Pharmaceutical preparations

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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.

Box of liver extract

11.25 W x 16 D x 6.5 H cm