|
Date: |
|
Description: | Glass bottle with glass stopper, containing clear liquid. Typed paper label reads "Glycerine". Glycerin is a colourless, sweet, syrupy liquid obtained from animal and vegetable oils and fats by saponification. Largely used in Med. as an ointment and emollient dressing, as a vehicle for medicaments, etc. Chemically it is a triatomic alcohol, the hydrate of glyceryl. Pears Soap, the oldest commercial glycerine soap, was first sold in 1789. The first medical mention found is Savory & Moore, Companion to the Medicine Chest, 1878, p.29: ?Glycerin. Principally used externally for chapped hands, or nipples, fissures of the lips, or irritation of the skin of any kind.?
caption: Record Shot - Do not reproduce. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
|
More Like this...
-
Bottle
Glass bottle with glass stopper,…
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
jar
handmade, clear glass round bottle,…
-
-
|