Object Details
- Description
- Glass jar with paper label that reads “ETHYL CHLORIDE / Entirely an American Product / Stratford-Cookson Co. / Philadelphia, Pa.” Ethyl chloride (aka chloroethane) was used as an anesthesia, a solvent, or a refrigerant.
- According to an announcement in Western Dental Journal (1913), “E. DE TREY & SONS / Changes Hands / Dr. T. F. Stratford, formerly Sales Manager of the Dentists’ Supply Company, and W. K. Cookson, who since 1905 has been Manager of E. de Trey & Sons, have purchased outright the above business and will continue same under the name of STRATFORD-COOKSON COMPANY.”
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Stratford-Cookson Company
- Credit Line
- Gift of University of Pennsylvania School of Dentistry
- Measurements
- overall: 7 5/8 in x 1 3/4 in x 1 1/2 in; 19.3675 cm x 4.445 cm x 3.81 cm
- Object Name
- Ethyl Chloride
- pharmaceutical
- Other Terms
- Ethyl Chloride; Pharmaceuticals; Drugs
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