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Object Name |
Medicine Bottle, Ambrosia |
Object ID |
2004.248.01.01 |
Description |
Cylindrical glass bottle with cork stopper and yellowed paper label with blue print. Bottle has white pills inside. |
Materials |
Glass/Cork/Paper/Ink/Pills |
Manufacturer |
Manufacturer Label: D.L. Thompson, Homeopathic Pharmacists, 844 Yonge St., Toronto, Canada |
Provenance |
In the early 1920s, the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada, began accepting medical artifacts for a historical museum. It remained an unofficial collection until it was turned into the Medical Museum and Archives at University Hospital in the 1970s. In the 1990s, many of these artifacts were spread out among various local institutions, and the remaining objects were reorganized into the Medical Artifact Collection at the University of Western Ontario, catalogued and organized by Michelle Hamilton. |
MeSH Search Terms |
Investigative Techniques Technology, Pharmaceutical Drug Packaging Pharmaceutical Preparations Materia Medica Homeopathy |
Research Notes |
Ambrosia is the genus of the common and irritating ragweed plant. These tiny ambrosia pellets, to be taken eight at a time, were sold by Toronto’s D. L. Thompson Homoeopathic Pharmacists. Homeopathy is based on the theory that "like cures like" in small doses, so ambrosia would be given to patients with a ragweed allergy to try and alleviate their hay fever. |