GUSN-199018
AKiller bottle is a small glass tube with a cork top stopper. There is a white label with black print wrapped around the bottle explaining how to use this toothache rememdy.
medicine bottles
glass (material)
Bottle, Medicine
"AKILLER Superseding & Exceling any other./ Toothache Remedy/ Instant Relieft/ Positive & Safe" (printed)
"Directions,---Press a small piece of AKiller into the cavity of AchingTooth, or if no cavity, about Tooth and Gums of the Aching Tooth./ Dr. H. C. Porter & Son, Mfgs. & Props. Main and Pine Streets, Towanda, PA." (printed)
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
Unknown
2 x .5 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.2425
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