University Health Network - Academy of Medicine Collection
Category
Pharmacy
Classification
Pharmacy, General
Accession Number
1980.18.258
Description
A square glass bottle with tiny shoulders and a neck almost the size of the body, ending in a large lip and a cork; paper label; filled with white tablets.
A square glass bottle with tiny shoulders and a neck almost the size of the body, ending in a large lip and a cork; paper label; filled with white tablets.
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Acquired from the Academy of Medicine; source: Mr. Dean Charters.
Torn label; #2: no cracks or chips in the bottle; cork appears whole; top red paper covering loose on one side; paper label yellowed, dirty, and torn in the lower proper left quadrant.
Copy Type
Original
Reference Types
Article
Reference Comments
Ernst W. Stieb, "Edward Buckingham SHUTTLEWORTH 1842-1934," Pharmacy in History , 1970, Vol. 12, No. 3 (1970), pp. 91-116. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41108658
Research Facts
Edward Buckingham Shuttleworth created the E. B. Shuttleworth Chemical Company Limited in 1879 (the name was from 1896), and was the first director of the teaching faculty of the Ontario College of Pharmacy from 1882 to 1891. He was considered a pharmacist, educator, editor, author, artist, and bacteriologist. Shuttleworth lived into his nineties.
Exhibit History
Agnes Etherington Art Centre - July 2002
"When Medicine Met Science," Museum of Health Care, April 29, 2003 - 25 Jan 2017