Rectangular glass medicine bottle with open moulded body, tooled neck, and slightly concave bottom; top of rim has an irregular surface; shoulders are narrow and sloped; mould seams along the bottle's right front and the left back edges; small projections on the bottom corners, possibly tool marks;…
Rectangular glass medicine bottle with open moulded body, tooled neck, and slightly concave bottom; top of rim has an irregular surface; shoulders are narrow and sloped; mould seams along the bottle's right front and the left back edges; small projections on the bottom corners, possibly tool marks; glass contains many air bubbles; paper labels on the front and around the neck; stopped with a cork and is full of flat tablets.
Front label: "100 // COMPRESSED // TABLETS // Cascarin // Comp. // No. 1 // Cascarin, 1-4 gr. // Aloin, 1-4 gr. // Podoph. Res., 1-4 gr. // MADE BY // H. K. WAMPOLE & CO. // LIMITED // Man'f'g Pharmacists // PERTH, ONT., CAN."; pencil mark on front label reads either "M 8" or "M E," with an underline; neck: a line, below which is printed, "CHOCOLATE // COATED"
Permanent Location
Storage Room 0010
0010-A5-6 Box 2 Row G
Width
2.4 cm
Height
7.0 cm
Depth
3.8 cm
Unit Of Measure
centimeters
Condition Remarks
Glass is clean; paper label on the front is missing two upper corners; both ends of the label around the neck have been torn away and lost; cork is blackened; dust and residual material are accumulated at the junction of cork and glass; there is a round fragment of paper on the cork
Copy Type
Original
Reference Types
Book
Reference Comments
"Bottles: Identification and Price Guide," by Michael Polak, 1994, p. 19; "The Snake-Oil Syndrome: Patent Medicine Advertising," by A. Walker Bingham, 1994, p. 108; "The Merck Index of Chemicals and Drugs," 7th ed., Merck & Co., 1960, pp. 38, 217-218, 401-402; "Gould's Pocket Pronouncing Medical Dictionary," by George M. Gould, 1924; "The Oxford Dictionary of Current English," Oxford University Press, 1998; "Hirokawa's Comprehensive Dictionary of Pharmaceutical Sciences," Hirokawa Publishing Co., 1983
Research Facts
Cascarin Comp. No. 1 is a laxative. As similar drugs, "The Snake-Oil Syndrome" shows advertisement items of "Cascarine" and "Cascaret." Cascara sagrada was, according to an old Merck Index, a plant found in northern Idaho and in the area west to northern California. "Podoph. Res." is suspected to be Resin of Podophyllum, which is a poweful cathartic.