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Napier's Original Medicine Bottle

Creator: NationalMuseumsScotland on 8 Apr 2011, 1 p.m.

Napier's original medicine bottles.

On loan from Napiers the Herbalist, Edinburgh.

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Napier's Original Medicine bottles Bottle

The interior of J.Cormack's Chemist shop, Corstorphine, Edinburgh, c.1895.

In the nineteenth century, chemists held a stock of raw materials on their shelves, which they would combine according to the doctor's prescription. The medicines would all be made within the premises of the shop.

Created by: NationalMuseumsScotland on 31 Mar 2011, 2:28 a.m.

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Found Bottles

When walking on a hillside near some train tracks in Prague, after having jumped a fence, i kicked some leaves around near a base of a tree and uncocered two irredecwnt medicine bottles similar in shape and size to this one. They had been burried into the wet earth for who knows how long.

Created by: ScienceFestival on 16 Apr 2011, 1:57 p.m.

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Finding bottles

Tales of finding glass fragments in the dirt and also medicine bottles and new uses for them.

Created by: NationalMuseumsScotland on 18 Oct 2011, 3:20 p.m.

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Taking medicine as a child

Memories of awful tasting medicine that does you good! Taking cod liver oil and tonic when you were young.

Recorded at the National Museum of Scotland at the Oor Mad History workshop.

Part of the SMHAFF.

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Created by: NationalMuseumsScotland on 26 Oct 2011, 4:06 p.m.

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