University Health Network - Academy of Medicine Collection
Category
Pharmacy and Drug Artifacts
Classification
Pharmacy, Gastrointestinal
Accession Number
1980.18.269
Description
A square-bodied glass bottle with practically no shoulders and a neck almost as wide as the body; paper label; corked; containing contents; base of bottle is concave.
A square-bodied glass bottle with practically no shoulders and a neck almost as wide as the body; paper label; corked; containing contents; base of bottle is concave.
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Acquired from the Academy of Medicine; source: Mr. Dean Charters.
Printed on label: "COMPRESSED TABLETS // Ant-Acid. // E. B. SHUTTLEWORTH CHEMICAL CO. // LIMITED // [illeg.] TORONTO"
Permanent Location
Storage Room 0010
0010-A5-6 Box 1 Row G
Unit Of Measure
centimeters
Dimension Notes
Length 10.5 cm x Width 3.6 cm x Depth 3.6 cm
Condition Remarks
The label is torn in several places.
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.