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    Youatt

    You don't see them with labels often and you are right...there is nothing about he bottle that says 'veterinary'.
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    Youatt

    Yes, penicillin was the first produced antibiotic. First purified in 1940 but not widely used until after the Second World War. There is a great book on it called 'The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat'. Dr. Florey was at Oxford University working on penicillin during the Blitz of England. He was...
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    Youatt

    What was the date for it? We really did not have antibiotics until after WWII
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    Youatt

    Yes..Merchant started it. It was one of those man&beast bottles. The small versions can be found with labels for man, and labels for animals. They have great posters and advertising showing horses being treated with it. It is a strange name and there is a reason for it. I will have to find...
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    Youatt

    Usually by the embossing or label. If uncertain you can research and find newspaper ads. Might say liniment, colic, spavin, gall, etc. There are some that are 'man & beast' medicines.....use them on yourself, your kids and your animals...a very common thing over 100 years ago. We did not...
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    Youatt

    Finding early veterinary medicines to add to my collection has become difficult. This past year I was able to complete my Youatt collection...I think. The two at the ends are pontiled. The center one is the most common. William Youatt was born in 1776 in Exeter, England to a surgeon...
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    WM. ENGELKING HALLETTSVILLE, TEXAS

    I collect veterinary bottles and, if you are looking for the early ones (pre-1880), they are very hard to find no matter where you live. That said I know of only one company selling vet meds made here in Louisiana. Dr Sylvester out of New Orleans and those are more like 1920's.
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    Black horse

    That is impressive.
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    South Texas Calabash Flask

    It may have had wicker or even leather wrapping. I have one in that general shape and very early..1830's or so, 5 inches tall, in aqua. Definitely American. When I bought it the bottle was sown into a leather cover with the remnants of a strap. The general consensus on another site was that...
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    I'm back, like it or not!

    I just made it back too.
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    Lederle Bacillus Acidophilus Milk Bottle

    It is called Lactobacillus Acidophilus now. It is what is now called a probiotic. They really did not know about all that back then but knew it helped with diarrhea, especially in folks that are lactose intolerant.
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    History of community drinking water disinfection.

    Just finished a great book on a big cholera outbreak in London in 1854. It was before the germ theory was accepted so folks did not know where this disease was coming from..many thought it was from a miasma. A minister and a local doctor,John Snow, used data and statistics to trace the spread...
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    Heard's Magic Mixture

    Last year i came upon a bottle embossed with Heard's American Embrocation. Over the years I have collected quite a few veterinary embrocation bottles...almost all have been British. I was not sure if this was a British bottle or American as I have embrocations claiming to be from various...
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    Did you miss me?

    I have not posted in so long I feel like I need to reintroduce myself. I live in south Louisiana and collect veterinary medicines...sometimes apothecaries...and sometimes other bottles that catch my fancy. Almost all live in boxes but I hope to eventually let them out to live on shelves...
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    UK Summer National 2018 - Photographs

    That was fantastic. Fun to see all the different items.
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