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opium and lead
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Dates
1929
circa 1929
Collection
Parke-Davis Collection
Category
Pharmacy and Drug Artifacts
Classification
Pharmacy, Pain
Accession Number
000001501
Description
Empty rectangular brown glass bottle stopped with a cork; bottle has a paper label on the front.
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Accession Number
000001501
Collection
Parke-Davis Collection
Category
Pharmacy and Drug Artifacts
Classification
Pharmacy, Pain
MeSH Heading
Analgesics
Pain -- drug therapy
MM= Drugs -- narcotics -- container
MM= Drug Packaging -- container -- bottle
Description
Empty rectangular brown glass bottle stopped with a cork; bottle has a paper label on the front.
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Collected by Parke-Davis
Maker
Parke, Davis & Co.
Site Made (City)
Walkerville
Site Made (State)
Ontario
Site Made (Country)
Canada
Dates
1929
circa 1929
Date Remarks
Based on lot number
Material
paper: beige; red; black
cork: beige
glass: brown
Inscriptions
Front: "[illeg. handwritten] // 100 N // GELATIN-COATED // PILLS // No. 434 // OPIUM // AND LEAD // N.F. // Opium, powd., 1 gr. // lead acetate, 1 gr. // Dose, 1 or 2 Pills. // POISON // C676762 // PARKE, DAVIS & CO. // WALKERVILLE, ONTARIO, CANADA"; bottom: "1283"
Permanent Location
Storage Room 0010
0010-A5-4 Box 4 Row B
Length
9.0 cm
Width
3.4 cm
Depth
2.2 cm
Condition Remarks
Label yellowed, dirty; bottle dusty
Copy Type
Original
Reference Types
Document
Reference Comments
Parke-Davis Lot Numbering System
Exhibit History
May 24 - Sept. 13, 2001: Agnes Etherington Art Centre Museopathy exhibit
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