Medicine bottle

Object/Artifact

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Historic Hudson Valley

Name/Title

Medicine bottle

Entry/Object ID

SS.61.38

Description

Bottle, medicine: light bluish ("aquamarine") mold-blown glass; welted lip; long cylindrical neck, slightly flared toward mouth; short almost flat shoulder; cylindrical body, with mold inscription, in vertical lines: "MRS WINSLOW'S/SOOTHING SYRUP/CURTIS & PERKINS/PROPRIETORS;" pontil-scarred base.

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Unknown

Attribution

Maker

Date made

circa 1830 - 1840

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type

Inscription

Transcription

See description

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Overall

Height

5-1/16 in

Diameter

1-1/8 in

Dimension Notes

Display Dimensions: 5 1/16 x 1 1/8 in. (12.9 x 2.9 cm)

Material

Glass

Relationships

Related Entries

Notes

SS.61.39 - Medicine bottle - Part of set SS.61.37 - Medicine bottle - Part of set

General Notes

Note Type

Curatorial Remarks

Note

Miscellaneous: Most of the "soothing syrups" of the period, forced down a multitude of small throats, contained a proportion of paregoric or other opium derivitives which would today be considered shocking, as well as illegal. Mrs. Winslow, extolled in advertising of the period as the "Florence Nightingale of the Nursery", and a nurse and physician, was the concoctor of a highly popular and well-publicized patent-medicine which, says Carson, contained 1/10th of a grain of morphine sulphate per fluid ounce. Not until 1911 was the use and sale of opiates regulated.

Note Type

StorageNote

Note

Home Location: Historic Hudson Valley, Sunnyside, 2nd floor hall