Clear glass bottle with a cylindrical body, rounded shoulders, medium-wide neck ending in a pronounced lip; paper label; cork stopper; contents: white flaky or crystalline powder.
Clear glass bottle with a cylindrical body, rounded shoulders, medium-wide neck ending in a pronounced lip; paper label; cork stopper; contents: white flaky or crystalline powder.
Based on National Drug and Chemical Company's opening of a Toronto factory; cork closure on bottle.
Material
glass: clear
cork: brown
paper: brown; black
contents: white
Inscriptions
Printed on label in black ink: "Sodium Benzoate // Sodii Benzoas // NaC7 H5 O2 // NATIONAL DRUG & CHEMICAL CO. // of Canada, Limited // TORONTO"
Permanent Location
Storage Room 0010
0010-A3-2 Row F
Copy Type
original
Reference Types
Books
Dictionary of Biography
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
Daniel A. Goldstein, “The Historical Apothecary Compendium,” (Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing Co., 2015).
Research Facts
Used as an antiseptic and diuretic, to treat chronic cystitis, rheumatism, gout, and rheumatic arthritis. Also an expectorant and urinary disinfectant.