Medicine bottle
Category
Glass
Date
Unknown
Materials
Glass, Cork, Paper
Measurements
129 x 60 x 43 mm
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1525911
Summary
Clear pale blue rectangular cross-section glass bottle with glass stopper and cork seal with a black and red printed paper label. The words "KUTNOW'S POWDER" are embossed on the back of the bottom and the letters "K's P" on the underneath. The paper label is blank. Content is a fine white powder that fills the bottle. Kutnow's Powder was a medical remedy for "the treatment of indigestion, biliousness, constipation, hæmorrhoids, diabetes, and disorders of the stomach, liver, kidneys and bladder also for rheumatism, rheumatic arthritis, gout, lumbago, sciatica, neuralgia and uric acid diseases" according to an advertisement of 1893, and claimed to be made from the evaporated salts of a number of European spas.