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Historic Medicine Bottles

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Description: Display of 18th and 19th century English medicine bottles.
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Learning about Medicine Bottles

Date: 04 04 1943
Description: Members from the U.S. Coast Guard Hospital Corps School meet in the pharmaceutical laboratory where they checked medicinal products and learned to identify...
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Prescription Pharmacy

Date: 08 01 1944
Description: Interior of Prescription Pharmacy at 20 Carroll Street.
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Four Bottles of Quack Medicines

Date: 04 27 1928
Description: Four bottles of quack medicine taken for for William S. Marshall.
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Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane Pharmacy Laboratory

Date: 1893
Description: Crocks and bottles of various sizes line shelves, while beakers and mortars and pestles rest on counter tops in the brick-floored pharmaceutical lab at the...
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Visiting Nurse Service

Date: 04 19 1948
Description: Visiting nurse Maude Rydberg of the Madison Visiting Nurse Service, shows Mrs. William E. Johnson, the former Jane Weston, the proper way to use the cotton...
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Man Taking Medicine

Date: 07 1926
Description: A man holding a cork between his teeth is pouring a dose of medicine into a spoon from an unmarked bottle. The photograph was staged at International Harve...
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National Business Women's Week

Date: 10 05 1953
Description: Joy Morrison poses as a worker in a drugstore during the 1800's. Pharmaceutical items on the wall were used in Wisconsin drugstores during the first 50 yea...
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New Plastic Blood Transfusion Bags

Date: 12 30 1964
Description: Technician Gail Stelzer checking shelves filled with new plastic blood transfusion bags at the Madison Chapter of Badger Red Cross, which recently converte...

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