Antique Medicine Bottles
Aug 17th, 2009 by admin
Antique medicine bottles are very important for our culture and they deserve our appreciation and attention, because they form significant part of our history. All types of antique bottles tell a story about a particular industry, way of life or historical period. However, antique medicine bottles have some characteristics that make them uniquely important for our culture and history. They offer best examples of rapid development of industry in the Western Europe and the USA. In addition to that, they perfectly demonstrate how our lives have changed in the last 100 years and how much have society and the way we live our lives been transformed by the products of science and technology. Medicine bottles and pharmaceutical industry seem to be the perfect example of that. When you look at the antique medicine bottles you can see the rapid changes in technology.
For example, antique medicine bottles tell us how far the medical industry has come in the last century. The most obvious change is that in the past medicine was stored in glass bottles. Nowadays, many elements are stored in plastic bags. Having a look at an old glass IV bottle can take you decades back. There are antique medicine bottles from the pharmaceutical industry that have the name of the chemical and even poison warnings worked right into the bottle’s design. This is so much different from today when everything is printed on adhesive labels and later attached to the bottle itself.
Antique medicine bottles have undertaken huge changes in the last century and their look and shape has completely changed. They have been transformed by unstoppable development of science and technology and therefore they are perfect example of the way our everyday lives have changed.
Very interesting, by the way i’m an antique glass collector. Do you still have those antique medicine bottles?