medicinal box
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact8914
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV985.1353.2
- Description
- Empty, silver coloured, square cardboard box with hinged lid. Lid has a paper hinge. Three white commercial paper labels with blue lettering. Large label covering entire lid of the box indicating "100 / FROSST'S / BLAUD CAPSULES / No. 65 / BLAUD TONIC LAXATIVE / Rx Each capsule represents: / *Blaud =10 gr. / Arsenical solution = 2 min. / Ext nux Vomica 1/4 gr. / Phenolphthalein 1/2 gr. / * Approximately 1 grain of Iron / in the Ferrous state. / Charles E. Frosst & Co. / Manufacturing Pharmacists / MONTREAL, CANADA". The Charles E. Frosst & Co. is in script. A large X has been written in pencil across the lid label. A security label extends from the bottom of the lid label down the front side and one-quarter the way across the bottom of the box. The number "65" is printed on the side and bottom of this label. Another security label extends down the right side of the box and half way across the bottom. Printed on this label is "CAUTION / Keep in a Dry, / Cool place / Soluble Elastic / Capsules will lose / their shape and / melt if exposed to / heat or moisture."
- Classification
- Medical & Psychological T&E
- Marks/Labels
- There are three white commercial paper labels with blue lettering. Large label covering entire lid of the box indicating "100 / FROSST'S / BLAUD CAPSULES / No. 65 / BLAUD TONIC LAXATIVE / Rx Each capsule represents: / *Blaud =10 gr. / Arsenical solution = 2 min. / Ext nux Vomica 1/4 gr. / Phenolphthalein 1/2 gr. / * Approximately 1 grain of Iron / in the Ferrous state. / Charles E. Frosst & Co. / Manufacturing Pharmacists / MONTREAL, CANADA". The Charles E. Frosst & Co. is in script. A large X has been written in pencil across the lid label. A security label extends from the bottom of the lid label down the front side and one-quarter the way across the bottom of the box. The number "65" is printed on the side and bottom of this label. Another security label extends down the right side of the box and half way across the bottom. Printed on this label is "CAUTION / Keep in a Dry, / Cool place / Soluble Elastic / Capsules will lose / their shape and / melt if exposed to / heat or moisture."
- Measurements
- 2 cm height x 8.5 cm width
- Country Made
- Canada
- Province Made
- Quebec
- Site/City Made
- Montreal