Bill,

I have forwarded your query to the American Institute on the History of
Pharmacy, If I get a reply will post it to HISTARCH list. For future
reference:

American Institute on the History of Pharmacy
777 Highland Ave.
Madison WI 53705-2222
  608-262-5378 W
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Allen Dart, RPA, Executive Director
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center
PO Box 40577
Tucson AZ  85717-0577   USA
    520-798-1201 office, 520-798-1966 fax
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    URL: www.oldpueblo.org
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On Wed, March 12, 2008 4:42 pm, Lockhart, Bill wrote:
> I know I am usually on the answering end of bottle questions, but I don't
> have a clue as to the answer to this one.  Hopefully, someone else out
> there will know.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Bill Lockhart
>
> Bill:
>
> I recently recorded a small historic trash scatter in Elmore County,
> Idaho, with several whole bottles on it.  Two of the bottles were small,
> dark brown, round bottles with threaded closures with metal lids.  They
> measure 1 1/4" in diameter by 2 5/16" tall.  They appear to possibly be
> veterinary medicine bottles.  The metal lids have a circular hollow center
> that closed with a rubber diaphragm that allows a hypodermic needle to be
> inserted into the neck of the bottle to draw up the contents.
>
> The rest of the scatter provides some curiously mixed dates.
>
> Do you or any of your group of bottle experts know when those diaphragm
> lidded bottles first started being produced?
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Shane Baker
> Idaho Power Company
>