Dr. Ralph and Mrs. Olga Crawford Canadian Dental Collection
Category
Diagnostic & Treatment Artifacts
Classification
Dental
Accession Number
010020084
Description
Dental burnisher; rounded octagonal white ivory handle; piece of silver metal between handle and brown metal end; metal section consists of octagonal base with angled round oval tip
Dental burnisher; rounded octagonal white ivory handle; piece of silver metal between handle and brown metal end; metal section consists of octagonal base with angled round oval tip
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Transfer from the Dental Canada Fund; previously housed in the Dentistry Canada Museum (Ottawa)
Ivory is darkened, with long crack running length of handle; metal end is heavily tarnished with rust in the middle
Copy Type
Original
Reference Types
Book
JPG
Reference Comments
"Catalogue of Surgical Instruments & Appliances", Down Bros. Ltd., 1906, p. 951 (similar to model# 4164-O); "S.S. White Technologies" website
CD #9
Research Facts
Dr Ralph and Mrs Olga Crawford donated their extensive Canadian dental collection to the DCF to create the museum in 1997; further donations were received while Dr Crawford was Curator Emeritus at the Dental Canada Museum until its closure in 2008; the S.S. White Dental Mfg. Co. first began as a tooth factory in 1844; burnishers were used to smooth out fillings after being placed in the cavity
Printed on one side: "MUNYON'S // HOMEOPATHIC // HOME REMEDIES"; on another side: "MUNYON'S // CATARRH TABLETS // PRICE, 25 CENTS."; from label: "When dissolved in water, it gives immediate relief, cleansing and soothing the inflamed mucous membranes. They remove all irritating discharges from the head and throat."
Printed on one side: "MUNYON'S // HOMEOPATHIC // HOME REMEDIES"; on another side: "MUNYON'S // NEURALGIA CURE. // PRICE, 25 CENTS."; from label: "Cures sharp, shooting, knife-like pains in the face, head, chest, and back, and neuralgia pains in any part of the body."
Printed on one side: "MUNYON'S // HOMEOPATHIC // HOME REMEDIES"; on another side: "MUNYON'S // LIVER CURE. // PRICE, 25 CENTS."; embossed on metal top: "MUNYON'S HOMEOPATHIC REMEDIES"; from circular: "Munyon's Liver-cure will positively cure biliousness, constipation, jaundice, and torpid liver, bilious headache, sick headache, coated tongue, bad taste in the mouth, tired, wound-out feeling, highly-coloured urine, wind in the stomach, pain and soreness in the right side under the lower ribs, depressed and dull spirits and restless nights."
Printed on one side: "MUNYON'S // HOMEOPATHIC // HOME REMEDIES"; on another side: "MUNYON'S // NERVE CURE. // PRICE, 25 CENTS."; embossed on metal top: "MUNYON'S HOMEOPATHIC REMEDIES"; from circular: "Restores overworked and overstrained nerves to a healthy condition. It cures all the symptoms of nervous exhaustion, such as depressed spirits, peevishness, irritability, general sensitiveness of the whole nervous system, failure of memory, inability to concentrate the thoughts, morbid fears, restless and sleepless nights, pains in the head, noises in the ears, and dizziness. It cures nervous prostration, stimulates and strengthens the nerves, and tones up the whole body."
Embossed on jar: "CUM HOC SIGNO COGNITUS EST // OMNIS ORBIS"; transl: "By this mark it is known // all around [the world]"; also embossed: "Wm R Warner & Co // Pharmaceutical // Chemists // Philada".
Embossed on jar: "CUM HOC SIGNO HYCEIA [?] COGNITUS EST // OMNIS ORBIS"; transl: "By this mark [?] it is known // all around [the world]"; also embossed: "Wm R Warner & Co // Pharmaceutical // Chemists // Philada"; label has, "THEO. H. EATON & SON // WINDSOR, ONTARIO"
Printed on label: "Wampole's // Antiseptic // Solution // (FROMOLID)"; printed on neck: "None genuine without the Signature of 'Henry K Wampole & Co' "; embossed on back: "Henry K. Wampole & Co., Philadelphia"; directions given on label in English and French.
University Health Network - Academy of Medicine Collection
Category
Pharmacy and Drug Artifacts
Classification
Pharmacy, General
Accession Number
1980.18.296
Description
A small cylindrical glass bottle with tiny rounded shoulders and a neck almost the size of the body; closed with a sealed cork; paper label; spherical pink pills.
A small cylindrical glass bottle with tiny rounded shoulders and a neck almost the size of the body; closed with a sealed cork; paper label; spherical pink pills.
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Acquired from the Academy of Medicine; source: Mr. Dean Charters.