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Object Name |
Medicine Bottle, Urtica Urens |
Object ID |
2004.244.01.01 |
Earliest Year |
1940 |
Latest Year |
1960 |
Description |
Brown glass bottle with white metal screw cap. Bottle is rectangular in shape, has rounded shoulders and a stubby neck. There is a rectangular yellowed paper label on the front of the bottle with blue print containing the dosage information and name of the pharmacy in which it was prepared and sold. The name of the medication and exact dosage are stamped on in black print. The bottle ia half full of tiny, spherical white pellets. The bottom of the bottle has numbers and symbols embossed in it detailing the manufacturing information of the bottle. On top of the cap is a round yellowed paper label reading "71" in handwritten blue ink. |
Dimensions |
H-10 W-4.1 L-3 cm |
Dimension Details |
2004.244.01.01 Medicine Bottle, Urtica Urens -- H: 10.0 cm x W: 4.1 cm x L: 3.0 cm |
Materials |
Glass/Metal/Paper/Ink//Pills |
Manufacturer |
Embossed on bottom of bottle, Dominion Glass Co. maker's mark and date code: "3 // B • [D inside a diamond shape] 5 // 3074". |
Inscription Type |
Paper Tag |
Inscription Text |
Printed on label on front of bottle: "Urtica Urens // DOSE - 4 Pills // taken dry on the tongue. // Children--One-half. Infants, one- // fourth the quantity. // PREPARED BY // D.L. THOMPSON // HOMOEOPATHIC PHARMACISTS // 844 YONGE ST. TORONTO // CANADA".; handwritten on sticker on cap of bottle: "71". |
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 |
D. L. Thompson Homoeopathic Pharmacists was established in 1868 and remained on Yonge Street (residing at different times at both 844 and 394 Yonge) in Toronto until they moved in 2014 to 239 Wallace Ave. The bottle was made by the Dominion Glass Company, likely in 1945 based on the date codes on the bottom of the bottle. Urtica Urens is a type of stinging nettle plant, and was used for treating ailments of the joints (rheumatism), kidney and gall bladder stones, urticaria (hives), and other urinary and mucous related issues. |