earthenware food dish
Date: before 1964
Inventory Number: 2003-1-0055b
Classification: Dish
Subject:
Maker: Fisher Scientific Company (founded 1902)
User: John B. Little
User: Harvard School of Public Health (founded 1913)
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Place of Origin:
Dimensions:
6 x 4.5 cm (2 3/8 x 1 3/4 in.)
storage: 32 x 31 cm (12 5/8 x 12 3/16 in.)
Material:
Description:
A domed ceramic dish, glazed and gray. The dish is flat at the bottom and has a circular hole at the top. On the outside of the circular wall sloped inward is a blue stamp, somewhat faded, that reads "FISHER".
Signedon outside of dish, stamped in blue: FISHER
Historical AttributesIn 1964, this object was used as a food dish for laboratory rats during an experiment of John B. Little in the Harvard School of Public Health's Department of Physiology.
Primary SourcesUsed in the following physiology investigation:
JB Little et al., “Bio-assay for antidiuretic activity in blood of undisturbed rats,” Journal of Applied Physiology 19 2 (1964): 179-86 (or alternatively, catalogued as CHSI Lib.6066).
JB Little et al., “Bio-assay for antidiuretic activity in blood of undisturbed rats,” Journal of Applied Physiology 19 2 (1964): 179-86 (or alternatively, catalogued as CHSI Lib.6066).
ProvenanceJohn B. Little, Department of Cancer Cell Biology, Harvard School of Public Health; gift to CHSI, 2003.
