Bottle, Medicine

Object Name:

Bottle, Medicine

Object ID:

1992.063.109.18

Date:

circa 1950

Description:

Medicine bottle and screw top. Brown pressed glass with mold seam; rectangle body with rounded corners and short curved shoulders; short cylindrical threaded neck. Screw top: plastic, threaded interior, white cardboard piece in top, ridged sides, "Mallinckrodt" in raised script top. "8 / DA.250" embossed on bottom of jar; circle with intersecting diamond embossed on bottom, "9" and "0" embossed either side; "5" embossed on bottom. Label adhered to front: "Rx" printed top in white, red background; "Argenti / Nitras" printed center in red, white background; "Mallinckrodt" printed bottom in white script, red background, "R" in circle below. Label adhered to back: "Silver / Nitrate / C.P." printed top red; "Mallinckrodt" printed red script, "R" printed in circle right; "CAUTION: Federal law / prohibits dispensing / without prescription" printed red; "POISON" printed red, skull and crossbones either side; "ANTIDOTE: Salt in warm water / until vomit is clear. Have patient / lie down and keep warm. Milk / or egg whites beaten with water. / CALL A PHYSICIAN / Mallinckrodt Chemical Works / St. Louis New York" printed red.

Material:

Glass
Plastic

Dimensions:

H-5 W-1.9 D-2.9 inches

Provenance:

From the Wilfred B. Osgood pharmacy collection, consisting of the contents of the Knox Pharmacy and Roberts Rexall Store (a.k.a. Osgood's Pharmacy) in Farmington, N.H.

Credit Line:

Gift of Donna T. Osgood in memory of Wilfred B. Osgood

People:

Osgood, Wilfred (1911-1988)

Subjects:

Pharmacies, Pharmacists, Skull crossbones