medicinal box
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- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV985.1353.1
- Description
- Empty, silver coloured, square cardboard box with hinged lid. Lid has a paper hinge. White commercial paper label with blue lettering affixed to lid covering entire lid of the box and extending down left and right sides of the lid. Label indicates "100 / Frosst's / BLAUD CAPSULES / No. 54 / Blaud and Arsenic / Rx Rx 2 / * Ferrous carbonate 2 1/4 gr. (0.14G.) / the amount contained in / Blaud's Pill Mass, B.P., 1932 10 gr. (0.65G.) / Arsenic trioxide 1/55 gr. (1.1 mg.) / the amount contained in / Arsenical Solution, B.P., 1914 2 min. (0.12cc.) / *Approximately 1 grain (65 mg.) of Iron / in the Ferrous state. / Charles E. Frosst & Co. / Manufacturing Pharmacists SInce 1899 / MONTREAL CANADA". The extension of the lid label on the left side indicates "100 Capsules No. 54 "Frosst" / KEEP DRY, AWAY FROM HEAT". The extension of the lid label on the right side indicates "100 Capsules No. 54 "Frosst" / Blaud and Arsenic, Rx 2". All references to Frosst and Charles E. Frosst & Co. appear in script. "CL" is written in pencil across the top left corner of the lid label. The number "26036" is perforated into the lid label on the right-hand side.
- Classification
- Medical & Psychological T&E
- Marks/Labels
- Large white commercial paper label with blue lettering covering entire lid of the box and extending down left and right sides of the lid. Label indicates "100 / Frosst's / BLAUD CAPSULES / No. 54 / Blaud and Arsenic / Rx Rx 2 / * Ferrous carbonate 2 1/4 gr. (0.14G.) / the amount contained in / Blaud's Pill Mass, B.P., 1932 10 gr. (0.65G.) / Arsenic trioxide 1/55 gr. (1.1 mg.) / the amount contained in / Arsenical Solution, B.P., 1914 2 min. (0.12cc.) / *Approximately 1 grain (65 mg.) of Iron / in the Ferrous state. / Charles E. Frosst & Co. / Manufacturing Pharmacists SInce 1899 / MONTREAL CANADA". The extension of the lid label on the left side indicates "100 Capsules No. 54 "Frosst" / KEEP DRY, AWAY FROM HEAT". The extension of the lid label on the right side indicates "100 Capsules No. 54 "Frosst" / Blaud and Arsenic, Rx 2". All references to Frosst and Charles E. Frosst & Co. appear in script. "CL" is written in pencil across the top left corner of the lid label. The number "26036" is perforated into the lid label on the right-hand side.
- Country Made
- Canada
- Province Made
- Quebec
- Site/City Made
- Montreal