General Information

Serial #

10861

Part Number

1

Total Parts

1

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

Clear glass bottle has brown wood [?] stopper; off-white paper label bears handwritten text; contains amber-coloured liquid.

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

N/A

Width

N/A

Height

5.6 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

2.2 cm

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Medical Technology

Category

Research

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Connaught

Country

Canada

State/Province

Ontario

City

Toronto

Context

Country

Canada

State/Province

Unknown

Period

Unknown

Canada

Part of a large collection of medical artifacts, archival material & trade literature transferred to CSTM in 2002 from the former History of Medicine Museum, Toronto, ON.

Function

Anticoagulant.

Technical

Heparin is an anticoagulant, and can be employed in vascular surgery. This example was the first non-toxic preparation for human use. [Ref. 3]

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

"SOLUTION/ OF/ HEPARIN/ 10 CC./ 1000 units per cc./ Lot 10861/ CONNAUGHT LABORATORIES/ UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO/ TORONTO 5, CANADA" and "Heparin, highly purified by/ processes involving crystalli-/ zation, dissolved in physiolog-/ ical solution. Preservative/ - Trikresol 0.3 %." printed on paper labels applied to bottle. "T C W CO./ 3/ U S A" appears in raised print on underside of bottle. UHN catalogue no. "994.1.20" printed by hand in black ink on bottle, near base.

Missing

None.

Finish

Clear glass bottle has brown wood [?] stopper; off-white paper label bears printed text; contains amber-coloured liquid.

Decoration

N/A