Object Details
- Eli Lilly and Company
- Description
- White and "silver" foil covered cardboard box with red and green print. Red pull-tab to open. 100 tests (approx). Do Not Dispense After Oct 1, 1963; Exp. Date Feb 1, 1964; 9116-791969; Directions printed on back of box. Box contains one green plastic dispenser with labels on both side. Back has directions for use and front side has color chart for interpreting results: yellow indicates sugar-free; light green, medium green, medium-dark, dark green indicate progressively higher levels of glucose: 1/10%, 1/4%, 1/2% , and 2% or more. The paper insert (revised Apr. 10, 1961) has directions on one side and includes a Patient's Record for recording tes-tape results on the other side.
- The Lilly company introduced Tes-Tape in 1956, the same year as Clinistix, a similar dry reagent strip, was made by Ames.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Margaret Sanger Center
- 1961-1963
- product expiration date
- 1964-02-01
- trademark registration date
- 1958-02-04
- ID Number
- 1982.0531.058
- catalog number
- 1982.0531.058
- accession number
- 1982.0531
- Object Name
- biological, box of
- test tape, urine sugar
- Other Terms
- biological, box of; Pharmaceutical; Diagnostic
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- foil (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1.7 cm x 5.3 cm x 6.2 cm; 11/16 in x 2 1/16 in x 2 7/16 in
- overall: 2 1/2 in x 2 1/8 in x 2 1/2 in; 6.35 cm x 5.3975 cm x 6.35 cm
- place made
- United States: Indiana, Indianapolis
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Diabetes
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1071416
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-200a-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
