You might try:

Griffenhagen, George, and Mary Bogard
1999  History of Drug Containers and Their Labels. American Institute of
the History of Pharmacy, Madison, Wisconsin.

If it doesn't have any discussion of the topic, there
several bibliographies included that might steer you to a reference.


On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 10:54 AM Burnett, Jeff <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> My name is Jeff Burnett and I am a student at MSU working on glass bottles
> from a site in the United States dating to the 1940s, though it was
> occupied earlier in a verity of capacities.
>
> My question is on a specific subset of cobalt medicine bottles which are
> embossed on one side with "HOSPITAL / SIZE / HOSPITAL / USE ONLY"
>
> I have done a bit of research online and using "The Bottle Book" by Fike
> (1987) and have found similar bottles online, but little to no historical
> information.
>
>
> https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Blue-Apothecary-Bottle-For-Hospital-Use-Only-Embossed-On-Bottle-/264265256144
>
> https://www.ebay.com/itm/Cobalt-Blue-Physicians-Bottle-For-Hospital-Use-Only-1930-s-/173928538084
>
> The SHA bottle site indicates that prohibition era bottles were sometimes
> embossed with "FOR MEDICINAL USE ONLY", but this is of course different. I
> was wondering if anyone has any good sources.
>
> Thank you very much,
>
> Jeff Burnett
>
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