Bottle, Medicine

Object number
92.44.13
Creator
Hazard, Hazard & Co.
Date
1888 – 1893
Description
Four sided clear glass medicine bottle, ground glass stopper. Contents: dark brown liquid. Bottle labeled "Hazard, Hazard & Co., /Dispensing Chemists/Broadway Cor 24th St.,/Sixth Ave Cor 39th St.,/New York City/and Newport Rhode Island/No. 105785 8/28/1889/Directed by Dr. Miller/One tablespoon with water before/each meal/shake thoroughly before using". Signature illegible. Handwritten contents on side almost illegible. "Pepsin...acid...(twick)...vini rub...'for di(rreha)'" in different hand.

Complete medicine case includes #92.44.1 through #92.44.34. Medicine case belonged to Dr. Abirim F. Squires, born Buffalo, NY, 1846, educated at Harvard Medical College. Settled in Newport, 1873, on staff, Newport Hospital, active in community until his death Oct 10, 1925.
Credit Line
Gift of either Melville B. Peckham or Warren Peckham
Subjects
Hazard, Hazard and Company
Related People & Organizations
Squires, Abiram F., Dr. (associated)
Peckham, Melville B. (associated)
Peckham, Warren (associated)