Rectangular fine grade calfskin leather pocket pharmaceutical vial case (a) with leather loops containing cork sealed full glass vials with paper labels with tablets or empty for: Aconite (b), Mercury (c), Calcium Sulphide (d), Calomel. (e), Cocaine (f), Morphine (g), Lithium (h), Atrophine (i), Strychnine (j); nine vials with cork stoppers; no missing vials; two leather sides and one bottom flap.
Number Of Parts
10
Part Names
a – case – (folded): Length 11.8 cm x Width 5.9 cm x Depth 2.2 cm
b –j: vial – Length 5.3 cm x Diam. 1.0 cm
Provenance
Donated by Dean Barry Smith, Faculty of Medicine, Queen's University.
Printed on upper flap interior: "THE ABBOTT ALKALOIDAL CO. // CHICAGO"; printed on seal on top of corks: "PURITY ACCURACY // GUARANTEED"; printed on vials: (b): "ACONITE // AMORPHOUS // Gr. 1-134"; (c): "MERCURY // PROTOIODIDE // Gr. 1-6""; (d): "CALCIUM // SULPHIDE // Gr. 1-6"; (e): "CALOMEL // Gr. 1-6"; (f): "COCAINE // MURIATE // Gr. 1/67"; (g): "MORPHINE // SULPHATE // Gr. 1-12"; (h): "LITHIUM // BENZOATE // Gr. 1-6"; (i): "ATROPHINE // SULPHATE // Gr. 1-500"; (j): "STRYCHNINE // ARSENIATE // Gr. 1-134"
Permanent Location
Storage Room 0010
0010-A6-5
Condition Remarks
Apr 2019: minor tear in upper right of flap repaired by Queen's Masters of Art Conservation student. Leather faded in some spots; interior leather scratched and worn; moderate tear in the upper flap on the right side; velvet faded from purple to cream where exposed; paper yellowed very slightly
In 1888 at the age of 30, Dr. Wallace C. Abbott, an 1885 graduate of the University of Michigan, founded the Abbott Alkaloidal Company. At the time he was a practicing physician and owned a drug store. His innovation was the use of the active - or alkaloid - part of a medicinal plant that he formed into tiny pills which he called “dosimetric granules.” This was successful since it allowed more consistent and effective dosages for patients than other treatments available at the time. The demand for these accurate granules soon far exceeded the needs of his own practice and, from these modest origins, was born Abbott, one of the world's most broad-based health care companies and a global leader in the discovery, development and manufacture of products that span the continuum of care. In 1915 The Abbott Alkaloidal Company's name is changed to Abbott Laboratories to reflect the company's growing research orientation and move to synthetic compounds.
Exhibit History
Off-site for conservation at Queen’s University Masters of Art Conservation School, Sept – Dec 2018.
On exhibit in the Friend - Vandewater Gallery in Botterell Hall, Queen's University; removed January 27, 2010