Oscadol

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Oscodal
Oscodal

Object Details

maker: H.A. Metz Laboratories

Description: Brown glass jar with paper label that reads in part “100 / OSCODAL / T.M. REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. AND CANADA / TABLETS / BRAND OF CODESTROL” and “Accepted by Council on / Pharmacy and Chemistry / of American Medical / Association / H. A. METZ / LABORATORIES, Inc. / NEW YORK / CANADIAN DISTRIBUTORS / WINTHROP CHEMICO CO., INC. / WINDSOR, ONT.”; Casimir Funk Funk (1884-1967), a Polish-American biochemist who was among the first to formulate (in 1912) the concept of vitamins, and who served as head of the Metz laboratories in the early 1920s, prepared the first batch of Oscodal, a cod liver oil concentrate. Despite the statement on the label, the term Oscodal does not seem to have been registered with USPTO.; Ref: “Vitamin Discoverer, Casimir Funk, Dead,” New York Times (Nov. 21, 1967), pp. 1 and 47.
Location: Currently not on view

Credit Line: Gift of The History Factory

Date made: ca. 1925-1932

ID Number: 2001.0314.792
accession number: 2001.0314
catalog number: 2001.0314.792

Object Name: otc preparation; Vitamin/Mineral Product

Measurements: overall: 3 3/4 in x 1 5/8 in x 1 1/8 in; 9.525 cm x 4.12369 cm x 2.8575 cm

place made: United States: New York, New York City

See more items in: Medicine and Science: Medicine; Balm of America

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Subject: Sterling Drug Collection

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nmah_1246549

NMAH

OSCADOL

National Museum of American History

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Record ID: nmah_1246549