Sherman's Influenza Bacterial Vaccine 38
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Object Details
- G.H. Sherman, M.D., Inc., Bacteriological Laboratories
- Description (Brief)
- During the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 the best medical minds in the country were focused on the problem of discovering the cause of the flu and how to prevent it — and they failed. Sherman’s Vaccine was developed in response to the pandemic. Essentially it was a “stew” of numerous bacterial strains (“influenza-bacillus-pneumococcus-streptococcus-staphylococcus-micrococcus-catarrhalis vaccine”), including that of the “influenza bacillus,” which had been identified in the 1890’s as the probable cause of influenza. The bacillus resisted attempts to completely prove or disprove its essential role in the disease and so remained for a long time our “best guess.” The human influenza virus was not isolated until 1933; this sample of Sherman’s Vaccine dates to 1937.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Sidney Glaser
- ca 1937
- product expiration date
- 1937-07-09
- ID Number
- 1985.0481.184
- catalog number
- 1985.0481.184
- accession number
- 1985.0481
- 1985.0481
- Object Name
- biological preparations
- biological
- vaccine, influenza, bacterial
- Other Terms
- Biological, Box of; Pharmaceutical; Vaccine
- Physical Description
- influenza bacillus 200,000,000 (drug active ingredients)
- staphylococcus aureus (drug active ingredients)
- staphylococcus albus (drug active ingredients)
- micrococcus catarrhalis (drug active ingredients)
- pneumococcus (drug active ingredients)
- Streptococcus (drug active ingredients)
- Measurements
- overall: 3.7 cm x 6.9 cm x 3.8 cm; 1 7/16 in x 2 11/16 in x 1 1/2 in
- overall: 1 1/2 in x 2 3/4 in x 1 1/2 in; 3.81 cm x 6.985 cm x 3.81 cm
- place made
- United States: Michigan, Detroit
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- The Antibody Initiative
- Health & Medicine
- Antibody Initiative: Influenza
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Vaccines
- Record ID
- nmah_1071200
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-271c-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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