Brown glass jar with paper label that reads in part “100 / OSCODAL / T.M. REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. AND CANADA / TABLETS / BRAND OF CODESTROL” and “Accepted by Council on / Pharmacy and Chemistry / of American Medical / Association / H. A. METZ / LABORATORIES, Inc. / NEW YORK / CANADIAN DISTRIBUTORS / WINTHROP CHEMICO CO., INC. / WINDSOR, ONT.”
Casimir Funk Funk (1884-1967), a Polish-American biochemist who was among the first to formulate (in 1912) the concept of vitamins, and who served as head of the Metz laboratories in the early 1920s, prepared the first batch of Oscodal, a cod liver oil concentrate. Despite the statement on the label, the term Oscodal does not seem to have been registered with USPTO.
Ref: “Vitamin Discoverer, Casimir Funk, Dead,” New York Times (Nov. 21, 1967), pp. 1 and 47.
