Medicinal/Chemical/Druggist Bottles - Society for Historical …
Square druggist bottles (in cross section; see picture to the right), with and without proprietary embossing, were a relatively commonly used shape ordered and used by many local druggists and drug stores during the mid 19th century until well into the 20th century.
Historic Bottle Website - Homepage - Society for Historical …
This very large complex of pages includes bottle type specific sub-pages with extensive style based dating information, including complete scans of 5 different early 20th century (1906 to 1933) bottle makers catalogs spanning the mouth-blown to …
Who were the apothecaries? · Jars of "Art and Mystery": …
Well established as a profession by the seventeenth century, the apothecaries were chemists, mixing and selling their own medicines. They sold drugs from a fixed shopfront, catering to other medical practitioners, such as surgeons, but also to lay customers walking in from the street.
Glass Apothecary Containers - National Museum of American History
Jars 1991.0664.405 through 1991.0664.0408 contained electuaries, blends of various herbs, water, honey and sugar that form a paste. Named after Mithradates, King of Pontus, this medicine was touted as an antidote for poisoning.
From Potions to Pills: a short history of the apothecary
Nov 9, 2020 · We have about 600 English Delftware drug jars like the one you can see here. If you’d walked into an apothecary in the 17th century, these jars with their ornate designs and Latin inscriptions would have lined the shelves.
Apothecary jars | RCP Museum - RCP London
This collection of apothecary jars – used for storing medicines and their ingredients – is the largest privately owned collection of English delftware apothecary jars in the country. Comprising 207 items dating from the 1640s to 1745, the collection is on loan to the RCP Museum from Professor Victor Hoffbrand, FRCP.
The Evolution of the Apothecary for the Apothe-curious
Oct 13, 2017 · As more effective medications were developed, others were left to obscurity, and our predecessors couldn’t have guessed that we’d be willing to dole out some Benjamins for a few antique, decorative jars (not least because they may have personally known said Benjamin).
Drug Jars - Historic Jamestowne
These jars are the most common form of European ceramics found in the early contexts at James Fort. Thousands of sherds of delftware drug jars have been uncovered, and one jar was found in a soldier’s personal pit, dug sometime around 1610.
Jars of "Art and Mystery": Pharmacists and their Tools in the …
You will learn about the nineteenth-century pharmacist and chemist, the tools they used, the drugs they sold, and what ailments they treated. Get a sneak peek inside a pharmacy of the time, and investigate apothecary jars and the remedies they contained.
When Poison Was Everywhere - The Atlantic
Oct 11, 2016 · When Poison Was Everywhere. A new book explores how and why arsenic found its way into wallpaper, bread, and baby carriages in Victorian times. A 1856 painting by Henry Wallis shows the suicide...