Object Details
- Parke, Davis and Company
- Description (Brief)
- World War II propelled vaccine development and influenza research. Nobody wanted a repeat of the pandemic that devastated the troops and general population in WWI. The influenza virus had finally been identified, and the problem of how to grow it (in chicken eggs) was largely solved. “Prepared in the extra-embryonic fluid of the chick embryo” is stated prominently on this package of one of the earliest influenza virus vaccines.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Parke, Davis & Company
- 1945 - 1946
- expiration date
- 1946-12-25
- ID Number
- MG.M-06427
- catalog number
- M-06427
- accession number
- 173771
- Object Name
- biological
- vaccine, influenza
- Other Terms
- Influenza Virus Vaccine Type a-B; Vaccines; Biologicals; Drugs
- Measurements
- overall: 1 7/8 in x 7/8 in; x 4.7625 cm x 2.2225 cm
- place made
- United States: Michigan, Detroit
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- The Antibody Initiative
- Antibody Initiative: Influenza
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Vaccines
- Record ID
- nmah_719503
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-5bcb-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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