A cylindrical two-mould bottle with a narrow neck and a glass stopper; paper label; orange residue.
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Acquired from the Academy of Medicine
Dates
1850
1860
circa 1850-1860
Material
glass: clear; stained orange
paper: white
ink: black, brown
residue: orange
Inscriptions
Printed on label in black ink: "TINCT: // IODI. // (MIT:)"
Permanent Location
Storage Room 0010
0010-A4-1
Copy Type
original
Reference Types
Book
Reference Comments
Peter Squire, "Companion to the Latest Edition of the British Pharmacopœia," (J. & A. Churchill, 1899), https://books.google.ca/books?id=0Vw3AAAAMAAJ&dq=ol.+rosmar&source=gbs_navlinks_s
Research Facts
Made from iodine, potassium iodide, distilled water, and alcohol. Used as an antiseptic, alterative, deobstruent, deodorizer, disinfectant. The tincture was applied externally to treat chronic and parasitic skin diseases, and in phthisis, pleurisy, pericarditis and bronchitis as a counter-irritant. Injected into the scrotal sac to cure hydrocele. Drops of the tincture in water were used to treat vomiting.