I have a square mercurochrome bottle and a square iodine bottle sitting on 
my desk:)  Both are from my grandmother's attic and were put there in the 
1960s.  She took them from my greatgrandmother's house in the 1950s. The 
mercurochrome cost $.19 as printed on the sidepanel of the label.  It was 
distributed by the Indiana Merchandise Company of Indianapolis as H. W. and 
D. Brand of Merbromin, 2% solution. The iodine bottle was packed in 
Nashville, Tn. and the sidepanel sez...ANTIDOTE - Vomit, made by mixing 
mustard in water then drinking freely of gruel, arrowroot, or boiled starch. 
(Yuck:)  Both are rubber stoppered with glass applicators.  I have jpegs if 
wanted:)

Dan Allen
Cumberland Research Group, Inc.


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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