Old medicine bottles

Medical techniques and treatments are continuously evolving. From ancient times until the advent of modern science-based healthcare, the practice of medicine

Many centuries ago, people with ailments would go to trusted physicians when they were sick or poisoned and receive antidotes to their ailments in prescription

Steve McDonald 🎨📚 on Instagram: "'Tinctures, Tonics and Snake-oil' . If you know me, then you probably know that I've been collecting old medicine bottles and tins for years. I'm obsessed with them. A few years ago I did a bunch of mockups of fictional bottles, tins, and labels for some New York Theatre company's new production. It didn't amount to anything as the pandemic came along and scared everyone inside. I've taken all those illustrations and a bunch of pictures of my own…

"May be habit forming"... ya think?!

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Heavily used in WWII on all fronts of the war.

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!

It’s Banned Books Week! Every year at this time, the American Library Association publishes its list of the previous year’s most frequently banned and challenged books. Last year, I noted with dismay that only one of the ten most objectionable books was written by a Jew. This was disappointing because, in the past, our people ruled this …