Old Prescription Bottles

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Vintage Antique Burroughs Wellcome Empirin Compound, Hill's Nose Drops, and Vicks Va-Tro-Nol Nose and Throat Lot of 3 items
"Vintage Antique Burroughs Wellcome Empirin Compound, Hill's Nose Drops, and Vicks Va-Tro-Nol Nose and Throat Lot of 3 items 1. Vintage Antique Medicine Burroughs Wellcome \"Empirin Compound\" Never been opened. 2. Vintage Antique Hill's Nose Drops Sample by the Larned Corporation empty 3. Vintage Antique Vicks Va-Tro-Nol for Nose and Throat empty Free Shipping in the USA"
Mercurochrome, 1/2 ounce
At one time, the cure for every cut... Mercurochrome was banned by the US FDA in 1998 due to its high mercury content. The label on this bottle contains instructions on how to remove the bright red stains that Mercurochrome would leave on the skin...which we never did...the stain was a badge of courage.
Empire of Drugs: Vintage ads for when cocaine and heroin were legal
Cuando los productos con coca eran legales...
Visible Proofs: Forensic Views of the Body: Galleries: Exhibition Images: Laboratory Views
Belladonna leaf extract, Sharp & Dohme Co., Baltimore, about 1925
Another one of my old Parke-Davis antique medicine bottles. This one's an elixir with strychnine in it! It still has some it its original contents, too!
Heavily used in WWII on all fronts of the war.
Antique Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery Bottle w/Label Buffalo New York!!
Antique Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery Bottle w/Label Buffalo New York!! * Rare example in excellent condition and with the original label!! * Antique turn of the century * Quack Medicine - the very reason we have a current day, FDA * No chips or cracks here * Bottle is bright, shiny, and clean! * Newer, replacement, cork. * Bottle is approximately 8.5 T For the cure of all severe, chronic or lingering coughs, bronchitis, laryngitis, weak lungs, bleeding from lungs, public speak