Blue ridged glass bottle for arsenic, Europe, 1701-1935
photograph · 1935
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SUMMARY
Wikimedia Commons file page preserving Wellcome Images metadata for a blue ridged glass pharmacy bottle labelled 'Liq. Arsenical' and 'Poison', made in Europe between 1701 and 1935. The record explains that ridged poison bottles let pharmacists identify hazardous contents by touch, and that arsenic compounds remained medicinally used despite their toxicity. Used here as an object-role image for the toxic ingredient behind the arsenic beauty and slimming nostrums; the image is a generic arsenic container, not a surviving Dr. Campbell product. The former Wellcome Collection work page now returns 410, while Commons records the Wellcome photo number and CC BY 4.0 license.
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