Object Details
- Description
- Suppository machine with a “FOX . . . / PERFECTION . . . / Boston . . .” inscriptiion. Clarence W. Fox (1857-1912), the inventor, was a founding member of Fox, Fultz & Webster, a pharmaceutical firm in Boston.
- Ref: Clarence W. Fox, “Machine for Making Suppositories,” U.S. Patent 509,154 (Nov. 21, 1893).
- Fox, Fultz & Webster ad for the Perfection Suppository Machine and other items, in The Western Druggist (1893).
- "Clarence W. Fox Buried," Boston Globe (Feb. 16, 1912), p. 11.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- MG.M-12895.01
- catalog number
- M-12894
- accession number
- 288176
- Object Name
- Machine, Suppository
- suppository machine
- Measurements
- overall: 2 1/4 in x 6 1/4 in x 11 5/8 in; 5.715 cm x 15.875 cm x 29.5275 cm
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_729784
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-60dd-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
