Bottle, Medicine

Object Name:

Bottle, Medicine

Object ID:

1992.063.344

Place of Origin:

Chicago, IL

Date:

circa 1910

Description:

Medicine bottle in original box, Foley Company, Chicago, IL.

A. Bottle. Clear glass. Rectangular body with beveled corners, round shoulders, recessed panels, and long cylindrical neck. Printed paper label on front: "FOLEY'S / ORINO / LAXATIVE / CONTAINS SEVEN PER CENT ALCOHOL / Pleasant to Take / THE NEW LAXATIVE / Does Not Gripe or Nauseate / [uses and directions] / PREPARED ONLY BY / FOLEY CO. / CHICAGO / No. 502. GUARANTEED / UNDER THE FOOD AND / DRUGS ACT, JUNE 30, 1906." Cork stopper. Bottle contains dark brown liquid, full to shoulders.

B. Brown cardboard box. 8.25" high x 2.7" wide x 1.8" deep. Printed on all sides and top. Front: "FOLEY'S / ORINO / LAXATIVE / CONTAINS SEVEN PER CENT ALCOHOL / FOR / CONSTIPATION, / STOMACH and / LIVER TROUBLE / [information] / PREPARED ONLY BY / FOLEY CO. / CHICAGO, ILL / Price 50 Cents". Uses printed on left side; same in German on right side. Four other languages on back. Top flap: "No. 502. / Guaranteed by Foley Co., under the Food / and Drugs Act, June 30, 1906. / This preparation was formerly called / Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup / New wrapper adopted June 1st, 1907."

Material:

Glass
Paper

Dimensions:

H-7.2 W-2.6 D-1.3 inches

Provenance:

Part of the Wilfred B. Osgood Pharmacy Collection, consisting of the 1870s-1950s contents of the Knox Pharmacy (owned by Fred L. Knox) and Roberts Rexall Store (owned by George C. Roberts) in Farmington, NH. Wilfred Osgood purchased both pharmacies in the late 1940s/early 1950s, and kept the original furnishings from both stores. During the 1970s, he created a pharmacy display room from the contents of both stores. This collection is the contents of that display. The collection also includes manuscripts, books, photographs, and printed ephemera, transferred to NHHS library (1992-068.)

Credit Line:

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

People:

Osgood, Wilfred (1911-1988)

Subjects:

Pharmacies, Pharmacists, Medicines