Medicines through the years

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Includes variety of medicine bottles, pillboxes, and homeopathic treatments from various manufacturers and time periods.

Collection Items

LINIMENT Lucite display case "LINAMENTS"

Contains 3 medicine bottles.

LUCITE DISPLAY CASE “PAIN KILLERS”

Contains description and history of painkillers.

DR SETH ARNOLD’S COUGH KILLER c. 1875 - contained opium

VIAL OF MORPHINE AND ATROPINE TABLETS 1930’s
COCAINE MERCK 1930’s
BAYER ASPIRIN BOTTLE 1920’s
ST. JOSEPH…

HOMEOPATHY CASE

FOLDED LEATHER BOUND (disbound)

Contains multiple (13) 5.5 x 1.2 cm corked baber label bottles

MEDICINE BOTTLE

BALM OF GILEAD BUDS

Full descriptive label

Metal capped SLOAN LINAMENT BOTTLE

Molded glass- SLOAN’S LINAMENT MADE IN USA

(UNOPENED) MEDICINE BOTTLE

Label worn

LUCITE DISPLAY BOX with BOTTLES FOR RESPIRATORY DISEASES

KEMP’s BALSAM c. 1885 Pale green bottle
“KEMP’S BALSAM for THROAT and LUNGS”

LUCITE DISPLAY CASE “POISONS”

Contains 3 ridged bottles, some panel sided

MEDICINE BOTTLE - wide mouth

MOLDED, COBALT BLUE 1148 on base Paper label: "EH-A-I East Htfd CT"

MEDICINE BOTTLE

Green, molded glass. 8 sided.

GLASS MEDICINE BOTTLE

Paper label: Calomel (=mercury chloride) "Sold by F. Brown's Drug and Chemical Store" NE Corner CHESTNUT + FIFTH STS, PHILAD.

MEDICINE BOTTLE - CALOMEL (cork stoppered bottle)

Label worn, contains powdered materials

AMBER glass stoppered molded medicine jar

MEDICATIONS - HOMEOPATHY

THANIS LOZENGES HW & D

BROKEN vial of KICKAPOO oil (embossed KICKAPOO OIL)

Includes Ether, 8 minims. Aches and pains. Old catologue tag: Becker, A MD. M - 1988 - 001.

FOLDING BOX MEDICINE KIT

Includes:3 Metal capped JARS (square) Bronchitis Cough Alkaline CAP 4 Round capped vials In cover: 5 metal clipped round vials, some with pills/paper labels (handwritten).

WRAPPED BOX OF “MALTZYME”

With cascara sagrada. Directions on label.

FLAT SIDED MEDICAMENT BOTTLE

EMBOSSED PHILO W. NEWTON + CO

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