Both the mercurachrome and the merthiolate that we had as kids (50s, 60s)
came in generic brown bottles that our pharmacy used for all of their liquid
medications.
Marcy Gray
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Subject: mercurochrome
> Has any one found mercurochrome bottles? I have a small square bottle
> with a
> glass dropper. The bottle/dropper are stained a pinkish red. Ideas? The
> bottle is from a late 1930s to early 1940s residential deposit. I
> remember my
> mom painting me red with mecurochrome as a kid but it seems like it came
> in a
> round bottle.
>
> Mary L. Maniery
> PAR Environmental Services, Inc.
> PO Box 160756
> Sacramento, CA
> (916) 739-8356
>
>
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