Napier's original medicine bottles.
On loan from Napiers the Herbalist, Edinburgh.
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.
© SLA National Museums Scotland
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.
Tales of finding glass fragments in the dirt and also medicine bottles and new uses for them.
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.
http://talesofthings.com/totem/totem_view/6743/
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