Bottle, Medicine

Object Name:

Bottle, Medicine

Object ID:

1992.063.364

Place of Origin:

New York, NY

Date:

1900-1920

Description:

Medicine bottle in original box and paper wrapper, Pre-Digested Food Company, New York, NY. Wrapper sealed; not opened to examine box or bottle. Rectangular package, presumably containing a glass bottle in a cardboard box. Dark blue paper wrapper printed in tan lettering on front: "Paskola / A Flesh Forming / FOOD, / (ARTIFICIALLY DIGESTED.) / FOR / THIN, PALE PEOPLE, / AND ALL / WASTING DISEASES. / SUPERSEDING COD LIVER OIL. / IT WILL BE ASSIMILATED WITHOUT / ANY DIGESTIVE EFFORT. / FORMULA INSIDE. / PRICE, 50c. / The Pre-Digested Food Co., / 30 READE ST., NEW YORK."; image of pineapple at top. Printed on right side: "Paskola". Printed on left side: "The Pre-Digested Food Co." Printed on back: smaller version of front text, blue on white, and formula.

Material:

Glass
Paper

Dimensions:

H-6.8 W-3.9 D-1.9 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, Pineapples