Carl: I would be interested in hearing more about the excavation of the "de la Howe" site. I have several small glass vials (phials) from 33Wo41, a cabin occupation part of a rural farmstead dating 1831-1839 in Wood County, Ohio. The probate records show receipts for medicines (combination of chemicals), mostly purgatives, but their abbreviations I have not been able to translate to the known chemicals themselves. Three of the five Dunlap family members who resided on the farmstead were sickly in health and died within a year or two of each other due to the harsh conditions of frontier settlement. Copies of the probate records were sent to two medical specialists, one in Buffalo, NY and the other in Pittsburgh, PA, who teach the history of medicine, to see if they could determine the names of the chemicals and their medicinal properties. I have not as of this date received any information back on what these vials may have contained. Pat Tucker [log in to unmask]